{"id":31023,"date":"2020-10-11T16:41:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T16:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=31023"},"modified":"2020-10-11T16:41:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T16:41:55","slug":"danger-looms-listen-to-nigerians-saraki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/danger-looms-listen-to-nigerians-saraki","title":{"rendered":"Danger looms, listen to Nigerians \u2013 Saraki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari and Nigeria Police to listen to End SARS protesters.<\/p>\n<p>He warned of looming danger if the protests are not cautiously handled.<\/p>\n<p>In his opinion on Sunday, Saraki said the nation is bearing witness to a well-organised and largely orderly youth protests, a clear manifestation of the frustration felt by the youthful citizens.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that Nigerians are voicing their response to the increasingly harrowing scenes of random and unjustified harassment, intimidation, detention and extrajudicial killings by SARS.<\/p>\n<p>Saraki said the current situation is too important and above individual vanities.<\/p>\n<p>He urged all those who can to stand up and speak out on the issues Nigerians collectively face.<\/p>\n<p>The former lawmaker said in his opinion, #EndSarsNow, #EndPoliceBrutality is not one bit about politics.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that it\u2019s about young people whose agitation and raised voices are demanding protection of their daily rights and liberties, to live, associate, and work, productively in peace.<\/p>\n<p>Saraki described as awful, the manner SARS arbitrarily pick up youths simply because of dress, hairdo, and others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a danger in the escalation of any protest movement, and #EndSARS is no different. Escalation happens when each hour that passes is an hour when we seem to have not listened to the protesters and taken their grievances seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari and Nigeria Police to listen to End SARS protesters. He warned of looming danger if the protests are not cautiously handled. In his opinion on Sunday, Saraki said the nation is bearing witness to a well-organised and largely orderly youth protests, a clear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":8135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[83,1545],"class_list":["post-31023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-bukola-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>Danger looms, listen to Nigerians \u2013 Saraki - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari and Nigeria Police\" \/>\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\/danger-looms-listen-to-nigerians-saraki\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Danger looms, listen to Nigerians \u2013 Saraki\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari and Nigeria Police\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/danger-looms-listen-to-nigerians-saraki\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-11T16:41:55+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\/danger-looms-listen-to-nigerians-saraki#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/danger-looms-listen-to-nigerians-saraki\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Danger looms, listen to Nigerians \u2013 Saraki\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-11T16:41:55+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/danger-looms-listen-to-nigerians-saraki\"},\"wordCount\":230,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/danger-looms-listen-to-nigerians-saraki#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/Bukola-Saraki.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Bukola Saraki\",\"SARS\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/danger-looms-listen-to-nigerians-saraki#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/danger-looms-listen-to-nigerians-saraki\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/danger-looms-listen-to-nigerians-saraki\",\"name\":\"Danger looms, listen to Nigerians \u2013 Saraki - 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