{"id":31519,"date":"2020-10-23T17:58:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T17:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=31519"},"modified":"2020-10-23T17:58:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T17:58:46","slug":"fct-youths-deny-harassing-endsars-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fct-youths-deny-harassing-endsars-protesters","title":{"rendered":"FCT youths deny harassing EndSARS protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The indigenous Youths of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), under the auspices of Indigenous People of FCT Youths Representatives, have denied harassing the EndSars protesters, saying instead they are prepared to join and support any peaceful EndSARS protest in the territory.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the group, Mr Yunusa Yusuf, said at a news conference on Friday in Abuja, that FCT youths have no plan to intimidate or attack any peaceful protesters in the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p>Yusuf declared that the group is in support of the good intentions of the EndSARS protests, meant to end injustice and promote good governance in the country.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, noted that the good intentions of the EndSARS protests have been hijacked by hoodlums, who didn\u2019t mean well for the people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to say that I am not an enemy of the Nigerian youth. You know that as an activist, I stand for justice for the youth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have always led peaceful protests in this country in support of the youths and I will say clearly I have no intention to attack or harass any peaceful protester in the FCT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were in the office of the Inspector General of Police (IGP). We gave him a 48-hour ultimatum to get these hoodlums out of the way because they have hijacked the good intentions of those who want justice and good governance for the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yusuf said, however, that they are against any protest that will deny residents their legitimate businesses and their sources of livelihood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we want to get it right, we cannot be destroying the same Nigeria, which belongs to all of us. 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A spokesperson for the group, Mr Yunusa Yusuf, said at a news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":31420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[622,1545],"class_list":["post-31519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-fct","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>FCT youths deny harassing EndSARS protesters - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The indigenous Youths of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), under the auspices of Indigenous People of FCT 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\/fct-youths-deny-harassing-endsars-protesters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FCT youths deny harassing EndSARS protesters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The indigenous Youths of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), under the auspices of Indigenous People of FCT Youths\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fct-youths-deny-harassing-endsars-protesters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-23T17:58:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/endsars-nigeria.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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\/fct-youths-deny-harassing-endsars-protesters#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fct-youths-deny-harassing-endsars-protesters\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"FCT youths deny harassing EndSARS protesters\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-23T17:58:46+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fct-youths-deny-harassing-endsars-protesters\"},\"wordCount\":288,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fct-youths-deny-harassing-endsars-protesters#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/endsars-nigeria.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"FCT\",\"SARS\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fct-youths-deny-harassing-endsars-protesters#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fct-youths-deny-harassing-endsars-protesters\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fct-youths-deny-harassing-endsars-protesters\",\"name\":\"FCT youths deny harassing EndSARS protesters - 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