The speaker, Nasarawa State House Assembly, Danladi Jatau, has appealed to Nigerians to shelve planned August 1st, 2024 nationwide protest and give government more time to addressed the challenges facing the country.
He made the appeal when reacting on the planned hunger protest by some Nigerians, yesterday in Lafia, urged the planners of the protest to shelve their plan and give government more time to address the economic and other challenges facing the country.
According to him, giving government more time would enable the government to initiate more policies and programmes that would improve the standard of living of Nigerians.
The speaker believed that the current challenges facing the nation are surmountable with both short term and long term measures, hence the need to give the government morr time to fix the problems.
Jatau said “His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and our own Governor of Nasarawa State, Engr A A Sule are being up and doing in rolling out different intervention programmes that will address hunger and hardship in the land”
“I want to appeal to our citizens and other Nigerians not to protest on the economic situation but they should pray and support government at levels to address the challenges which no doubt are enormous.
“As prayer is key and solution to every problem and every leader need prayers and support of his people to succeed.
“I want to urge Nigerians to give government more time so that it will roll out more poverty eradication programmes in the land”, he said
He also called on the security agencies to ensure the protection of lives and property as well as ensure that peace continue to reign supreme in the country.
The Speaker used the medium to call on stakeholders both religion, community and political leaders in the country to advise their subjects not to protest show more patience, understanding and support government to succeed considering the unforseen effect of protest.
“I want to advise stakeholders both political, religious and traditional to join hands with the government to address the challenges facing the country.
“They should talk to their subjects to shun the planned hunger protest scheduled for August in the country, considering what may be its effect.
“I want to assure the Government of the 7th Assembly’s readiness under my watch to give all the maximum support to address the hardship and other challenges facing the society.
“We will do what is humanly possible to improve on the standard of living of our people,” Speaker Jatau said.
