The Defence Headquaters (DHQ) Thursday said that the planned nationwide protest against economic hardship in the country was an open invitation to a state of anarchy, saying that it would not allow anarchy to befall the nation.
The Director Defence Media Operations, Major General Edward Buba who issued the warning during the biweekly press briefing Thursday stated that “the contemporary context of the planned protest is to shadow happenings in Kenya which has so far been violent and unresolved to date.”
According to him, “While the constitution allows citizens the rights to peaceful protest, it does not allow for violent protest, those behind the violent protest are planning the protests are doing so to be hijacked by hoodlums and throw the country into a state of anarchy and make the country ungovernable.
“They want to replicate what is happening in Kenya in Nigeria, their targets are critical public infrastructures, worship places, marketplaces, our air and sea ports, and others, they want to create a state of war.
“As military, we have seen wars and their effects in the past where we have gone for peacekeeping and we will not allow it to happen in Nigeria It is not movies, they are real, ignite a fire during harmattan, you can never predict the end.
“Citizens can just go to any of the IDP camps around and see the effects of war situation, They should allow peace to reign and not be beating drums for a war in the country, they should allow the federal government to remedy the bad situation and put things in proper way so that the nation can flourish again and not the other way round.”
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