Secret Police DSS moves to infiltrate the upcoming nationwide protest, reach out to the secretary of the YRC
Despite the DSS move, the YRC insisted that the planned peaceful protests remain a constitutional right and will not be stopped by intimidation. The Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) revealed that the Department of Public Services (DSS) began deploying its operative across the country to dissolve the proposed nationwide protest against bad management and acute hardship under President Bola Tinubu’s administration. Despite the DSS move, the YRC insisted that the planned peaceful protests remain a constitutional right and will not be stopped by intimidation. YRC national secretary Francis Nwapa told Saharara Porters how he spent almost an hour on a telephone conversation with one Mr. Philip Nnam, who identified himself as an official of the Department of Public Services (DSS) in Abuja. Nwapa confronted his 49 minutes and 57 -second conversation with Nnam who made every possible effort to ward him off and refrain from continuing with the planned nationwide #30daysrantchallenge Street Peaceful Protest. The YRC writer said he challenged the said DSS officer on the selective maintenance approach of the agency and trained him on democratic values, especially the right of citizens to a peaceful meeting. He said he advised Nnam to enter into terrorists who attack families in Akure, Benue, Enugu, Edo and across the country, instead of targeting unrepentant revolutionary activists. Nwapa also referred to the ongoing detention and legal threats against activist Khaled Aminu, who was allegedly detained by the DSS for more than 50 days after his involvement in the protest marches of #endbadgovernanceSineria. The activist did not halter words to criticize government policy, and rejected recent economic reforms as ‘anti-poor’ and proposals meaning student loans or subsidy removal, a significant progress. He said the DSS officer invited him to a personal discussion in Abuja, and he promised that no arrest would be made, but he rejected the invitation. Saharan Porters reported earlier that YRC had requested a nationwide protest amid the #30Daysrantchallenge, while winning at the Nigerian Labor Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) to support the national action against the administration of the President Bola Tinubu. The YRC made the call in a statement issued by NWAPA, while throwing his weight behind the viral #30daysrantchallenge, a social media movement driven by Nigerian youths to protest the worshiping economic conditions and described them as “anti-people” policy of the President Tinubu-guided administration. The group applauded the boldness of Nigerian youths taken to social media to express their dissatisfaction, describing the challenge as “a step towards achieving a better Nigeria.” NWAPA’s telephone conversation with the said DSS officer came a few hours after the group did the nationwide peaceful protest. Nwapa has crronized his full conversation with Nnam: ‘Comrades, I have just made a Mr. Philip Nnam came down who identified himself as a member of DSS Abuja. ‘ In a call that lasted 49 minutes 57 seconds, he said he heard that the YRC was planning a protest march and that it could lead to make the law and the meeting of the law disappear. “He did everything to discourage protests, though the YRC did not recently charge protests.” We had a strong conversation that was more to relieve him about the ingredients of democracy that protest is one of them. I advised him to attack for terrorists who attack families in Akure, Benue, Enugu, Edo and across the country. “I also advised him to arrest the CIA asset occupied Aso Rock instead of wasting his time and airtime with unrepentant revolutionary activists.” He said the DSS was there for our interest, and I asked him the interest they protected when they arrested Khaled Aminu and locked him up for more than 50 days and still on the threatened threat to join his treatment. “He said that the protest could be hijacked to cause Mayhem, and I quickly reminded him that in my 25 years of argument I had never been involved, or saw a violent protest that was not the government that used the security operations to destabilize it or recruiting thugs to attack protesters.” I reminded him that DSS -Jeeps was captured on videos during #endsars that attacked chunks to attack protesters. “He said the government policy is working and I asked him which of them, student loan, subsidy removal, electricity tariff increase, currency devaluation or what exactly?” And he said that students now have access to loan, and I am glad that I was able to educate him on all this policy. “He advised me to join the government with my brilliant ideas, and I told him as soon as I decided to be an armed robber, I would join them, but for now we fight to have a country that will work for everyone.” He said that he liked me, and that I should come to his office so we could discuss at any time. he. “We ended the long conversation by me that told him to quickly investigate and understand those who would be sent to protest, but in terms of argument, no one can stop it because it is a real guarantee under the law, and under international treaties Nigeria is a signatory.” We ended up on a friendly note when he was too hard to crack. ‘Pro-democracy organizations and civil society groups have since called on the Nigerian government to respect the fundamental rights of citizens, warning that efforts to suppress peaceful division may deepen public distrust and unrest.