We’ve identified sponsors of planned nationwide protest – DSS

The Department of State Services (DSS) says it has identified those behind the planned nationwide protest.
DSS spokesperson, Dr, Peter Afunanya, in a statement issued, on Thursday, , said the service was applying a ‘non-kinetic measure and conflict resolution’ to address the impending protest.
There were reports that youths across the country were planning to embark on nationwide protest over the increasing cost of living.
Dr. Afunanya added that the plotters of the protest intended to use the violent outcome of the protest to smear the federal and sub-national governments.

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His words, “The DSS has followed the discourse on planned protests in parts of the country in the coming weeks by persons and groups yet to identify themselves in public as leaders of the plot.

“While peaceful protest is a democratic right of citizens, the Service has confirmed a sinister plan by some elements to infiltrate the protest and use it to cause chaos and extreme violence in the land. It has also identified the reason behind the protest as political.

“The plotters desire to use the intended violent outcome to smear the federal and sub-national governments, make them unpopular, and pit them against the masses. The long-term objective is to achieve regime change, especially at the Centre.

“The Service has also identified, among others, the funding lines, sponsors, and collaborators of the plot. However, it does not think that aggression should be the first line of action in handling the emerging scenario.”

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