Following the insecurity and poverty ravaging the country, Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, and his son, Folarin, took to the street of Lagos on Monday alongside others to protest.
The protesters reportedly marched from the busy Ikeja Bus Stop to the Governor’s Office through the Secretariat to the Lagos State House of Assembly chanting protest songs with placards.
The protest which lasted for several hours was tagged, ‘Enough is Enough’.
The placards carried had inscriptions like, ‘No to Exploitation and Multiple Taxation’, ‘Provide Jobs or Unemployment Benefits for Youths’, ‘Provide Security in Schools’, ‘End Kidnapping and Banditry’ and ‘Stop Killings, Secure Nigeria’.
A foremost activist, Jaye Gaskiya, who led the protest, said the it was organized to express displeasure over how badly the country had degenerated.
He said Nigeria is characterized by extreme poverty, arms proliferation, religious intolerance, the rise of hate and ethnic nationalism is moving towards social upheavals due to exploitation of the people, greed and avarice of a spineless political class that has reached its wit’s end.
The protesters include trade unions, civil society, students, farmers and peasants,