Vice President Kashim Shettima has stated that over N300 billion was lost to the #EndBadGovernance protests across the nation in August.
Speaking at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, while receiving the minors who participated in the protests following their release after President Bola Tinubu’s order, Shettima said private property and business suffered losses during the street processions.
His words: “I would like to admonish you, young men not allow yourselves to be used to perpetrate violence and destroy public and private property.
“Over N300 billion was lost in the protests, consisting mainly of private property and loss of business.”
The vice president, however, failed to give more information on how he arrived at the figure.
Shettima also called on governors and other public officeholders to rehabilitate the minors and make them useful to society.
He said: “I will urge our governors and our elected representatives here, that cut across the political divide, what binds us together as citizens of the Federal Republic of Nigeria supersedes whatever divides.
“I will call our two governors and our representatives into a single cause and ensure that these subjects are rehabilitated and reintegrated into the fabric of our communities.”
This is the repercussions of breeding nuisance to rig elections into power by political bandits. This is the result of brainless politicians that imposed themselves on Nigerians. I cry for my beloved country Nigeria autocracy has overthrown democracy.