Members of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly has suspended their sitting for this week to return home from today Monday in order to persuade their constituents not to join the planned nationwide protest.
This, the Lawmakers are to visit their constituencies, engage their people and persuade them on the resultant effects of the protest and the need not to participate on the protest for peace and national development.
Rt. Hon. Danladi Jatau, the Speaker of the House stated this while reading the House resolution under the matters of public importance brought by Hon. Mohammed Garba Isimbabi, Member Representing Toto /Gadabuke during the House proceedings today in Lafia.
The Speaker directed Honourable members to appeal to the people of their constituencies to shelve the protest and support government policies and programmes at all times.
” Protest is not the solution to the challenges facing the nation. There is the need for dialogue and peaceful resolution on the challenges facing the country.
” Let’s go back to our various constituencies to talk to our people not to join the planned nationwide protest scheduled for August 1 to Aug.10, 2024.
” We need peace and development in Nasarawa State, we need peace and development in Nigeria,” he said
The Speaker also called on the sponsors of the protest to shelve their actions in the interest of peace and for the overall development of the country.
Speaker Jatau commended Honourable members for their various contributions on the matter.
He also commended President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Gov Abdullahi Sule for their efforts in alleviating the suffering being faced by Nigerian as a result of fuel subsidy removal in the country.
In their various contributions, the lawmakers who spoke Hon. Peter Akwe, Hon. Onarigu Kana, Hon. Musa Abubakar Ibrahim, Hon. Solomon AKwashiki, Hon. Larry Ven Bawa, Hon. Esson Mairiga, Hon. Hudu A Hudu, Hon. John Ovey, Hon. Daniel Ogah Ogazi, Hon. Ajegina Kudu and Hon. Luka Zhekaba among others unanimously agreed to go back to their various constituencies to persuade their people not to join the protest.
They said that the protest would do more harm than good in the country.
They, however called on the government to create more jobs and empowerment for Nigerians as well as do the needful for societal development.
Earlier, Hon. Mohammed Garba Isimbabi, member representing Toto/ Gadabuke constituency while presenting the issue of the planned protest, has urged the people of the state not to join the nationwide protest over hunger in the land which he said will not solve the problem but create more problems.
He noted that the constitution gives room for peaceful protest but the resultant effects may add more harm than good hence the need for his call for citizens not to partake on it.
” Mr Speaker and Honourable members, I brought this issue of concerned to the nation, to the state and to our various constituencies, that is the planned nationwide August 1 protest.
” As we all aware that in the past, protest was always hijacked by hoodlums and sponsored by those who did not wish the government well,” he said
Hon Isimbabi called on stakeholders, political and religious leaders to talk to their people not to join the planned nationwide protest against hunger in the country.
He added that the State Governor Engr Abdullahi Sule has been speaking to major stakeholders in the State over the protest and the State legislature as an institution closer to the people need to talk to their constituents over the issue.