Nigeria’s Minister of Interior and Former Governor of Osun state, Rauf Aregbesola, has hailed Nigerian youths for participating in the #EndSARS Protests.
The minister made this comment while delivering a speech at the Anglican Communion in Ijebu-Ijesa, Osun state on Friday. He disclosed that the protests jolted the nation from its ‘lethargy’.
“The youth must be commended for organising a protest that woke the nation from its lethargy and roused our consciousness to the situation in which we found ourselves. These youth are a blessing to any society just as they can be the purveyor of evil, if their energy is not properly channelled.”
“The reports and pictures of assaults, killings, looting, arson and barefaced robberies should fill us all with shame and the deepest embarrassment.There was once a time when roadside traders left their wares unattended and were sure no one would steal them.
“We have regrettably seen after the protests that all the efforts of a century can be wiped out in a day, which will require not less than 50 years to recover from.”, he said.
