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By Chioma Onuegbu, Uyo
The Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, has expressed disappointment that nothing was known in the speech delivered to Nigerians on Thursday night by President Muhammadu Buhari in addition to what he had been saying since the #EndSARS protest by the Nigerian youth.
PANDEF’s national president, Air Commodore Idongesit Nkanga, retd, who spoke yesterday while reacting to the president’s speech emphasized that the forum hoped that the president had pitied the young people who were horribly killed at the Lekki tollbooth in the state of Lakes.
“We appreciate the fact that he (Buhari) felt sorry for the security services, but he did not feel sorry for the people who lost their lives. Maybe I missed it, but that seems to be the highlight of it all.
“And listening to what he said today, I don’t know if that would be enough to calm the feelings of the young people, I’m not sure.
“What he basically told us in his speech I don’t think there are new things in him. And we had issued a press release a day before what happened at the Lekki tollbooth saying that we want peace and we ask for peace.
“We hope that now that the government has begun to speak, it will accelerate action on what young people demand.”
He noted that the government should always make sure that the future of young people is considered important, and emphasized: “Even in the animal kingdom you don’t kill your little ones, you protect them.
“And every time I hear what I saw on television in Lekki, that those young people were sitting, waving the Nigerian flag, singing the national anthem and getting shot at, it’s depressing. And it is a lack of respect for this country.
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