Senate on Tuesday at plenary urged President Muhammadu Buhari to as soon as possible address the nation on issues of EndSARS protest in the country.
It also urged the protesting youths to stop the protest to allow the Federal Government address their demands.
Senate resolutions was sequel to a point of order motion on “Matters of Urgent National Importance” brought by Sen. Biodun Olujumi (PDP Ekiti).
“I will like to commend Senator Olujimi for bringing this motion. I would have thought that this motion should be a Senate’s
motion. All of us in this Chamber are co-sponsors. We need to be made co-sponsors because these children who are on the
streets are our children. I don’t know of anyone in this country who supports the illegal activity of SARS. I stand here as
a victim of SARS. Nobody here is a friend of the illegal activities of SARS. When our children went in the streets demanding
an end to SARS, I think it is a cry we all identify with and we will continue to identify with provided the protest remains
peaceful. It must remain peaceful because it is what the Constitution guaranteed to them. What we have today right now is
that the very good actions of our children is being hijacked. My own children are in the streets of the U.S. participating
in this EndSARS protest. I am not sure that my kids are in support of those who have hijacked this protest to go release
prisoners. I urge that they should remain lawful. The protest should remain peaceful while they give government the
opportunity to address these demands. We don’t want any harm to befall our children. We want to appeal to our children and
kids to give this government the opportunity to address this issue.” – Deputy President of the Senate,
Senator Ovie Omo-Agege
“I support this motion. I think part of what is going to resolve this issue is for the President of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria to look at the issue and address the Nation on them. And I think that the people will listen knowing
that he has now come out directly to deal with the issue. I suggest also that in doing that, he must try a way of setting
up a judicial panel that will have people that are well respected by the same youth so that they can address a certain
issue and that issue is those notorious SARS officers that have been identified and even identified by the presidential
panel. I will also forward to you the name of the five most notorious SARS Officers who have been fingered in killing so
many Nigerians.” Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe
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