{"id":126209,"date":"2024-07-30T11:49:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T10:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/hardship-former-igp-okiro-advises-protest-organisers-to-shelve-plan"},"modified":"2024-07-30T12:57:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T11:57:06","slug":"hardship-former-igp-okiro-advises-protest-organisers-to-shelve-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/hardship-former-igp-okiro-advises-protest-organisers-to-shelve-plan","title":{"rendered":"Hardship: Former IGP Okiro advises protest organisers to shelve plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A former Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr Mike Okiro, has advised the organisers of the planned nationwide protest to shelve their plan and engage in dialogue with the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>Okiro, who made the call in an interview with NAN on Tuesday in Abuja, said that constitutionally, Nigerians have the right to protest against bad governance and leadership.<\/p>\n<p>He said that no doubt that Nigerians were passing through some challenges; it was easier to destroy but difficult to rebuild.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe situation we are in now did not come overnight; it came over a period of time. Can we rebuild in one year what has been destroyed over time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem with protest is that, no matter how the organisers will go about it, there is bound to be loss of lives, destruction of properties and hardship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy advice to Nigerians, as much as they have the right to protest, is that they should allow the government some time to ameliorate the hardship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we ought to do is allow the government to put structures in place to alleviate the suffering of the masses. The government should come up with policies that will help develop the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The former chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC) said that the current government inherited some challenges and it is working towards solving them.<\/p>\n<p>He said that President Bola Tinubu is an achiever, adding that if he is given the time he can turn things around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a saying that nothing good comes easy. The current government inherited some challenges and needed to take some harsh decisions to solve them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s give the government some time to ease this suffering that Nigerians are going through. The protest, if started, may end in violence; it may be hijacked by hoodlums.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRather than lead to any positive outcome, the protest may aggravate the living conditions of the people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Okiro said that giving palliative measures to the people was not the solution to the economic challenges in the country.<\/p>\n<p>He urged the government to invest more in the productive sector in order to create employment opportunities for the youths and earn foreign exchange for the country.<\/p>\n<p>Okiro advised the Federal Government to encourage local rice farmers to boost production rather than allow importation of the product.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the continued importation of rice, beans and wheat would stifle the country`s weak economy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A former Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr Mike Okiro, has advised the organisers of the planned nationwide protest to shelve their plan and engage in dialogue with the federal government. Okiro, who made the call in an interview with NAN on Tuesday in Abuja, said that constitutionally, Nigerians have the right to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":126208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[9410,254,7377,260],"class_list":["post-126209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-hardship","tag-nigeria","tag-okiro","tag-protest"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hardship: Former IGP Okiro advises protest organisers to shelve plan - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A former Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr Mike Okiro, has advised the organisers of the planned nationwide protest ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/hardship-former-igp-okiro-advises-protest-organisers-to-shelve-plan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hardship: Former IGP Okiro advises protest organisers to shelve plan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A former Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr Mike Okiro, has advised the organisers of the planned nationwide protest ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/hardship-former-igp-okiro-advises-protest-organisers-to-shelve-plan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-07-30T10:49:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-07-30T11:57:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/07\/sm_1722327757.699891.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1440\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/hardship-former-igp-okiro-advises-protest-organisers-to-shelve-plan#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/hardship-former-igp-okiro-advises-protest-organisers-to-shelve-plan\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Hardship: Former IGP Okiro advises protest organisers to shelve plan\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-07-30T10:49:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-07-30T11:57:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/hardship-former-igp-okiro-advises-protest-organisers-to-shelve-plan\"},\"wordCount\":425,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/hardship-former-igp-okiro-advises-protest-organisers-to-shelve-plan#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/07\/sm_1722327757.699891.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Hardship\",\"Nigeria\",\"Okiro\",\"Protest\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/hardship-former-igp-okiro-advises-protest-organisers-to-shelve-plan#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/hardship-former-igp-okiro-advises-protest-organisers-to-shelve-plan\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/hardship-former-igp-okiro-advises-protest-organisers-to-shelve-plan\",\"name\":\"Hardship: Former IGP Okiro advises protest organisers to shelve plan - 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