The President of the Movement for Peace, Justice, and Pacific Resolution, Professor Kabir Umar Jabaka, has condemned planned nationwide protests, calling for dialogue instead.
In a statement issued on Monday in Gusau, Zamfara State, Jabaka warned against insurrection and industrial action, emphasising the importance of peaceful resolutions.
“The association wishes to inform all its state chapters as well as the general public that it renounces in totality any form of insurrection or industrial action in the name of protest or otherwise,” Jabaka said.
“And hence calls on all its state chapters to shun the impending planned nationwide protest and actively uphold enlightening the public on the essence of embracing dialogue.”
“As a peaceful resolution promoting movement and as proven by our long and outstanding research, the planned protest is an ill wind that blows nobody any good,” he continued.
“And hence appeal for restraint to properly register our plight with the authorities concerned for dialogue for viable, lasting solutions.”
Jabaka further highlighted the nation’s security challenges: “Nobody is in darkness about the fact that due to our long-standing insecurity, our country is awash with illegally possessed firearms and overrun by unprecedented criminalities in the history of our nation, following on from a great deal of unemployment and hunger sufficient to detonate the unseen explosive in the ire of this distressed populace. Hence the need to exercise caution.”
He emphasised the importance of dialogue over conflict: “According to him, their association is also never oblivious to the fact that what has not been achieved by compromise can never be achieved by war, and all wars’ grievances end at the round table.”
Jabaka acknowledged the public’s plight: “We however fully discern the plight of the public and thus rest assure the public of taking the onus to properly register their plight with the leadership of the Senate, House of Representatives, and Executive, appealing for a quick intervention in the following forms.”
The association proposed solutions: “The association further called for a state of emergency in food security in the nation by quickly subsidising food and other essential commodities in the country and facilitating and supporting sufficient supplies in our markets.
“The authority should also look into the possibility of quickly swinging into action to restore the full/larger part of the fuel subsidy. Nigeria is ours, and peace is its own price. Stability and growth are products of peace,” they emphasised.
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