Protest was hijacked, marred with violence please embrace dialogue – IMAN DG urges protesters
The Director General of Importers Association of Nigeria Taskforce, IMAN Amb. Chijioke Okoro has reiterated that he wasn’t against the Youths neither was he dissuading the youths from protesting because he’s on the payroll of the government but because the protest was hijacked and marred with violence as he anticipated.
Speaking to newsmen today in Abuja he reiterated that he doesn’t want people to misconceive or misinterpret his gesture “I’m not against the protest because I know that the hardship is real and there’s hunger in Nigeria, I just wanted the youths to be prudent and embrace dialogue because the president was ready to dialogue, after dialogue if the government refuses to stoop then further protest would have been necessary all the casualties we had wouldn’t have occurred”.
He lamented that a lot of people died during the protest and no tangible thing was achieved before the youths failed to take advantage of dialogue ” To be very sincere, nothing was achieved with this protest because the youths to take advantage of dialogue, I’m not an agent of the government but it’s good to be upright and honest about issues, despite the loss of lives and properties the youths can’t hold up to any remarkable achievement as a result of the protest “
