#EndSARS:Nigeria Sliding Into Anarchy, Coalition Tells Buhari

A Coalition of 200 Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari, to stop the wanton looting and destruction of government facilities, particularly police stations by hoodlums, following the #EndSARS protest, lamenting that the situation would plunge the country into anarchy.
Aside announcing its exit from the protest, it called on state governments to engage the youths in town-hall meetings to broker peace, and to stop further killings and destruction of property.
This was contained in a statement, yesterday, jointly signed by the representatives of the Coalition of Human Rights Advocates (COHURA), Conference of Africa Mothers Forum (COAMOF), Justice and Equity Network (JUEGN), Justice And people’s Network (JUPENE); Dr Banjo Ayodele; Ngozi Okocha; Zainab Alkali; and, Festus Igbokwe; respectively.
Ayodele said: “We wish to urge President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately restore law and order in Nigeria. We also urge all the governors to commence town-hall meetings with youths across the entire states of the federation because direct engagement with the youth is the best way to achieve peace.
“How do we justify the wanton destruction of both private and public properties in Lagos and other parts of the country? Is this part of the protest? Certainly not! This is a clear act of criminality that should not be tolerated.
“Many people have lost their lives just as many means of livelihood have been destroyed by these set of criminals! Security forces are now helpless as they don’t want to be seen as using excessive force on the criminals.
“As the situation keeps deteriorating on an hourly basis, we strongly believe that it is time to act decisively before we are plunged into full anarchy”.