The “take-it-back” movement has insisted on staging a nationwide protest today, Monday, April 7, 2025, against the emergency rule in Rivers State as well as what it called human rights abuse and misuse of Cybercrime Act.
The Nigeria Police Force has warned the organisers to shelve their planned nationwide protest, describing the timing of the demonstration as ill-conceived and mischievous.
The Force noted that April 7, 2025 has been set aside by the Federal Government for maiden edition of National Police Day.
But the organisers said its move was premised on “ugly trends” in the country.
The take-it-back movement said it called for a nationwide demonstration to address what it called the “authoritarianism of President Bola Tinubu’s administration, abuse of human rights and the misuse of the Cybercrime Act.”
It would be recalled that from August 1 to 10, 2024, many protesters, mostly youths, trooped to major cities across the nation to demand immediate action from the federal government on the cost of living crisis which was believed to have been caused by the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration’s twin policies of the petrol subsidy removal and the currency floating.
The protest, tagged ‘#EndBadGovernanceInNigeriaNow’, saw some youths in parts of the country wave the Russian flags. Many of them were later arrested.
In his reaction to the #EndBadGovernanceInNigeriaNow protest, President Tinubu, in his broadcast on August 4, had said: “My dear Nigerians, especially our youth, I have heard you loud and clear. I understand the pain and frustration that drive these protests, and I want to assure you that our government is committed to listening and addressing the concerns of our citizens. But we must not let violence and destruction tear our nation apart.”
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