EndSARS: We need to rebuild trust with citizens, Osinbajo tells politicians
- VP Osinbajo has urged the government to do everything it can to gain back the trust of citizens
- According to him, this will help forestall a repeat of the EndSARS violence
- Going further, the VP also lamented the violence that followed the nationwide protests
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As Nigeria gradually regains normalcy following the EndSARS protest, the federal government has declared that there is an urgent need for the rebuilding of trust between the government and the governed.
This was disclosed in Lagos by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. The vice president said this during the Rebuild Lagos: Dialogue and Partnership event.
According to him, government at all levels must do everything to rebuild the lost confidence with the people.
Osinbajo argued that this will help forestall a repeat of the destruction witnessed in the country in the aftermath of EndSARS protest.
Describing the destruction as a national tragedy, he said never should the carnage witnessed in Lagos be allowed to repeat itself.
He said:
“Perhaps, it is worth emphasising that the destruction and disruption of life and work in Lagos is a national tragedy and a major economic setback for the nation, even as we face the most difficult economic challenges in our generation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic."
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Also, Osinbajo paid a solidarity visit to the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, at his Ikoyi residence in Lagos.
Others who were at the APC leader's residence with Osinbajo were the governor of Lagos state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Lagos APC chairman Tunde Balogun, and Hon. James Abiodun Faleke, the lawmaker representing Ikeja federal constituency in the House of Representatives.
In another development, the federal government has been urged to listen to the yearnings of Nigerian youths as a matter of urgency.
Rev. Dr. Samson Olasupo Ayokunle, the president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), made the call.
Ayokunle, at a consecration ceremony in Akure at the weekend, charged the Nigerian government to adequately cater for the youths who are formidable.
According to him, the youths have woken up to the fact that they are not a liability to society.
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