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Ondo Youths Protest Against Currency And Fuel Scarcity In Nigeria
Ondo state’s Ore, Odigbo council area youths protested peacefully along the Benin, Ore, Lagos expressway against the lack of naira notes and the high cost of fuel.
The young people intervened less than a day after the State Police Commissioner, Oyeyemi Oyediran issued a warning against statewide protests and any other behavior that would disturb the quiet in the state.
According to Oyediran, the intelligence at hand showed that some dishonest individuals had refined strategies to sabotage the state’s citizens’ ability to live in peace.
He claims that some groups have developed plans to shut down and assault important locations in the state in order to rob banks and other financial institutions as well as shopping malls and other places of business.
According to Oyeyemi, the Command was aware of preparations to hold protests throughout the state to air their frustrations.
Therefore, he advised the locals not to organize any protests, noting that pertinent groups were called to the conference to help shed more light on the current difficulties the state’s citizens were facing.
In light of the state’s current security crisis, he pleaded with its citizens “not to embark on any form of Protest” in order to prevent it from being hijacked by thugs or used as a vehicle for committing other horrible crimes in the state.
Vanguard assembled the protestors, who then met at Ore over the Head Bridge as early as 8 a.m. and blocked the road, putting a stop to social and commercial activity.
“All we are saying, give us new notes, give us gasoline,” the demonstrators were heard chanting.
Commuters traveling to Lagos, those going east, and those trying to conduct business in the vicinity were all delayed on the road for a number of hours.
They swore not to leave the road until the Federal Government found a long-term fix for the nation’s fuel and naira shortages.
Transporters and drivers using the road bemoaned the roadblock and voiced their displeasure with the occurrence after having trouble purchasing fuel to get to Lagos.
One demonstrator, who gave his name as Ayodele Ajimakin, claimed in an interview that the recent suffering plaguing the nation is highly serious and becoming intolerable.
Ajimakin charged that the Federal government had been insensitive to the hardships that Nigerians had been going through recently.
He continued by saying that the purpose of the demonstration was to let the government know that the general populace of Nigeria is suffering.
