#EndSARS – Govt Can’t Protect Lives Without Caring For Citizens – Donald Duke

A former Governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke, has expressed displeasure with the way the #EndSARS protest was handled by the President, Muhammadu Buhari administration. He noted that the president should have listened to their grievances. He said, “If you have children who are protesting, no matter how nonsensical you may think it is, you have to listen to them. I do not call them hoodlums or miscreants because we produced them. They are children and they have parents. We are the miscreants and hoodlums who have appropriated our commonwealth. As regards the #EndSARS protests, there is disaffection in the entire youth strata of society. You have to engage them because whether you like it or not, they would eventually take over. And you don’t want angry young people to take over the country. At the age of 30, i was a commissioner. I am a beneficiary of youthful exposure. At the age of 37, i was already a governor. I don’t want that to be an exception, i want it to be the norm. All the youths are asking for is exposure and opportunities. So many things are imported, but young people in Nigeria can actually make those things here if they are sufficiently empowered. They should be given concessions because each time we import things, we are creating jobs elsewhere. “There is a big problem if jobs are not created for them. China is not playing. They are creating jobs for their teeming population because they know the country system would disintegrate if they have so many unemployed people.So, to follow that same pattern, most of the things we import can be made here if we put our minds to it.”