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APC stakeholders meet over #EndSARS protests

Some stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday met at the National Secretariat of the party in Abuja over the protest to end SARS and other bad government policies. Nigerian youths had been on the streets for 11 days protesting an end to police brutality, extra-judicial killings and other bad government policies. The protests had attracted both national and international attention with different persons and groups intervening in the protest.

Speaking after the meeting of the stakeholders, representatives of the youths in the APC Caretaker/Extra- Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee, Ismaeee Ahmed, said the APC youths met to see how to bring the government to talk to the Nigerian youths. Speaking on the meeting, he said: “Its a meeting of several stakeholders in the party to discuss the current situation in the country, which has been going on for the last 9 to 10 days about several protests that have broken out on this issue of police brutality and #End- SARS and we thought as young people in the governing party, we try to aggregate ideas and opinions of various stakeholders within the party to see how we can proceed on how to bring this seemingly disturbing situation to an end.

“At some point, we are going to have inter-generation equity conference with the ment. He also pointed out that if 70 per cent of funds budgeted for the two agencies were utilised for the intended purposes, the Niger Delta region would have been better. Earlier in his remarks, Dikio hailed the former President for his historic role as the first president from the Niger Delta and who midwifed the entire amnesty programme as the then Vice President to the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.

While adding that his visit to the former President was in furtherance to his consultation with critical stakeholders in the region on how best to approach and tackle the task of productively running the office to the benefit of the region and Nigeria, said that his vision was to restore and actualize the objectives that inspired the establishment of the amnesty programme through effective collaboration with relevant government agencies, state governments and other stakeholders towards achieving enhanced security and economic prosperity in the country.

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