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Arewa Youth Writes Buhari ,Says Protest a Threat to Country’s Collective Survival

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<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"aVRG5cyr" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>His Excelllecy&comma;<br &sol;>&NewLine;President Muhammadu Buhari&comma;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"LRjTL04l" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Dear Sir&comma;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>AYCC CONDEMN KILLINGS AND URGES FG TO SAVE NIGERIA FROM FALLING INTO A STATE OF ANARCHY&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Your Excellency sir&comma; we urgently write to request for your quick&comma; decisive and all-necessary action over this incessant protest in order to save us from falling into a state of anarchy by the violence that has trailed Nigerians in the recent days&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"m9XzOEMy" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;" &NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"6550225277"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Even as we&&num;8217&semi;re aware that the right to protest may be a manifestation of the freedom of assembly&comma; the right to freedom of association&comma; and the right to freedom of speech&comma; yet Nigerian government should not allow this violence to continue&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Your Excelllecy sir&comma; Arewa Youth Consultative Council condemn the killings of youths and officers all across Nigeria&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;nigeriantracker&period;com&sol;2020&sol;10&sol;21&sol;our-heart-goes-with-the-unarmed-peaceful-protesters-khalid-kani&sol;">OUR HEART GOES WITH THE &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;UNARMED” PEACEFUL PROTESTERS-Khalid Kani<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We mourn the loss of lives and sorrowfully wish to lend our voices to the affected families of the protesters and police officers that lost their lives&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We are greatly aggrieved by the avoidable death of our young men and women&semi; they&&num;8217&semi;re our potential assets&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Both the civilians and officers of the Nigerian Police deserve to live&period; We must all rise to condemn the shedding and spilling of blood of Nigerians irrespective of who they are and for whatever reason&semi; human lives are sacrosanct&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Your Excellency&comma; as concerned and patriotic citizens&comma; we are greatly afraid that Nigeria is currently under an internal attack&comma; backed by a hidden sets of external forces with a sophisticated agenda that cannot be ascertained&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Looking at how rapidly the initial &&num;8216&semi;peaceful Protest&&num;8217&semi; has metamorphosed into a wild&comma; violent and volatile situation that can lead to total anarchy&period; We can recall that the initial protest was completely about scrapping the SARS UNIT&semi; a branch of the Nigerian Police Force under the Force Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We&&num;8217&semi;re urging all Nigerians to be conscious of what we&&num;8217&semi;re dealing with&period; This protest on inception came with five demands that are all humanly progressive&semi; even as the government embarked on the necessary steps in the comprehensive reform of the police&comma; most especially as the Presidential Panel on the Reform of SARS accepted the five-point demand of the protesters &plus; the National Economic Council presided by the Vice President with the 36 state governors and FCT Minister met on October 15 2020 and directed the immediate establishment of state-based Judicial Panels of Enquiry across the country&comma; we are still witnessing more complications&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The demands kept changing and the situations continue to aggravate especially with the recent destruction of courts&comma; Nigerian Port Authority building&comma; shutting down major public roads&comma; attack on the Oba of Lagos&comma; TVC building&comma; Orientel Hotel&comma; Oyingbo Motorpark&comma; over 12 different police stations and several other government buildings&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Arewa Youth Consultative Council wish to remind Nigerians about the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights&comma; that as much as right to protest exist&comma; they&&num;8217&semi;re also subjected to certain limitations and prohibitions especially on &&num;8220&semi;propaganda of war&&num;8221&semi; and advocacy of &&num;8220&semi;national&comma; racial or religious hatred&&num;8221&semi;&period; Articles 18 to 21 explained the restrictions of certain freedoms where necessary&comma; quoting &&num;8220&semi;in a democratic society in the interests of national security or public safety&comma; public order&comma; the protection of public health or morals or the protection of the rights and freedoms of others&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Your Excellency&comma; we are greatly concerned about the future of Nigeria&&num;8217&semi;s peace and security&comma; that&&num;8217&semi;s why we calling on your quick response to tackle these scenarios&comma; as the complications of the protest continue to change styles&comma; from peaceful to violent&comma; progressively organized to dangerously uncertain&period; Arewa and Nigerian youths should be mindful of our future&comma; we should never allow ourselves to be used as elements of violence or a threat to the interests of national security or public safety&period; We must disassociate ourselves from civil disobedience and violating the laws of Nigeria&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Your Excellency sir&comma; this protest is a threats to our collective survival&comma; especially from what we&&num;8217&semi;ve seen in Benin City&comma; Lagos lekki gate&comma; Plateau&comma; Abuja&comma; Kano and most threatening is the opening of Soro Soke radio&comma; the prison breaks&comma; the internet hacks&comma; burning down of hundred buildings and cars&comma; killings and all sort of destructions that are directly affecting people&&num;8217&semi;s lives and worsening the nation&&num;8217&semi;s economic situation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Dear Nigerians&comma; we all supposed to learn from Lebanon&comma; Spain&comma; Chile and Bolivia&comma; Algeria&comma; Catalonia&comma; Ecuador&comma; France&comma; Guinea&comma; Haiti&comma; Honduras&comma; Hong Kong&comma; Iraq and Kazakhstan but most scaring is to learn carefully from the sufferings of countries like Libya&comma; Egypt&comma; Yemen and Syria&semi; all of whom started from peaceful Protest to regrettable conditions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We must be careful not to destroy our country by ourselves&period; We must thread cautiously on actions that may have negative consequences on our today&comma; tomorrow and future generation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In conclusion&comma; as progressive partners of Arewa and Nigeria&&num;8217&semi;s peace&comma; stability and development&comma; we demand that all law enforcement agents&comma; government bodies and national stakeholders should be charged to see an end to this protests&comma; if possible peacefully and amicably&period; Let all security personnel operate within the rule of law&comma; human relations and with a very high professional and ethical standards&period; Nigerian policing at this critical time must complement the dictates of the best international policing practices even as they must suppress all forms of violent acts&period; Nigerian youths must also restrains themselves&comma; let&&num;8217&semi;s have second thought&comma; let&&num;8217&semi;s ponder&comma; let&&num;8217&semi;s analyze the situations critically&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Finally&comma; we appeal to all Nigerians especially youths&comma; to be law abiding&comma; responsible and strictly cautious of the social media&comma; we must be careful how we receive or share information especially on issues related to this protest&period; Uprisings and social violence&comma; protest and riots&comma; civil disobedience and sustained street demonstrations are the key enemies to every country&comma; they start peaceful and end violently&period; Don&&num;8217&semi;t allow the enemies of Nigeria to divide us&period; Kindly accept our highest regards&period; Thank you&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Yours Sincerely&comma;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hon&period; Muhammad Ibrahim Milb&comma;<br &sol;>&NewLine;National Director of Media and Communications&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;For&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;National President&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER -->&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; 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