{"id":30931,"date":"2020-10-09T14:54:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T14:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=30931"},"modified":"2020-10-09T14:54:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T14:54:47","slug":"saraki-advises-buhari-govt-on-handling-of-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/saraki-advises-buhari-govt-on-handling-of-protesters","title":{"rendered":"Saraki advises Buhari govt on handling of protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Bukola Saraki, former Senate President, on Friday urged the Federal government to listen to Nigerian youths protesting against the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, unit of the Nigeria Police Force.<\/p>\n<p>Saraki urged the government to engage the protesting youths on matters concerning their well being.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet, the former Senate President expressed hope that his approach would help calm the aggrieved youths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reports of the aggression meted out to young Nigerians protesting the high handedness of rogue units of @PoliceNG are deeply disturbing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeaders of our nation ought to listen to and engage with our youths on matters concerning their wellbeing. I hope this approach changes soon,\u201d Saraki tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>This is coming at a time policemen attacked protesters in Abuja with tear gas.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Saraki\u2019s former aide, Olu Onemola was arrested over his involvement in the protest in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: Bukola Saraki, former Senate President, on Friday urged the Federal government to listen to Nigerian youths protesting against the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, unit of the Nigeria Police Force. Saraki urged the government to engage the protesting youths on matters concerning their well being. In a tweet, the former Senate President expressed hope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":8135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,14],"tags":[103,1545],"class_list":["post-30931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-saraki","tag-sars"],"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>Saraki advises Buhari govt on handling of protesters - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Bukola Saraki, former Senate President, on Friday urged the Federal government to listen to Nigerian youths\" \/>\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\/all-news\/saraki-advises-buhari-govt-on-handling-of-protesters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Saraki advises Buhari govt on handling of protesters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Bukola Saraki, former Senate President, on Friday urged the Federal government to listen to Nigerian youths\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/saraki-advises-buhari-govt-on-handling-of-protesters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-09T14:54:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/Bukola-Saraki.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"437\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/saraki-advises-buhari-govt-on-handling-of-protesters#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/saraki-advises-buhari-govt-on-handling-of-protesters\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Saraki advises Buhari govt on handling of protesters\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-09T14:54:47+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/saraki-advises-buhari-govt-on-handling-of-protesters\"},\"wordCount\":152,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/saraki-advises-buhari-govt-on-handling-of-protesters#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/Bukola-Saraki.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Saraki\",\"SARS\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/saraki-advises-buhari-govt-on-handling-of-protesters#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/saraki-advises-buhari-govt-on-handling-of-protesters\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/saraki-advises-buhari-govt-on-handling-of-protesters\",\"name\":\"Saraki advises Buhari govt on handling of protesters - 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