‘#EndSARS Protests Show Nigeria Requires Genuine Restructuring’

A legal icon, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), has said the #EndSARS protest was an indication that the nation needs a genuine restructuring.
He said the crisis was a tip of the iceberg compared to what awaits the nation, if the needful was not done urgently to address the social, political and economic imbalance in the nation.
The Lagos-based legal luminary expressed regret that the two police stations that were set ablaze in his Ikere Ekiti country home during the crisis, had put policing system in jeopardy due to tactical withdrawal of the police from the community.
Olanipekun called on individuals to partner governments to resolve the high rate of youth unemployment and the attendant restiveness, saying that his foundation would expend a sum of N15million to empower 300 youths and N9million on the aged and widows resident in Ekiti.
Olanipekun said this in Ikere Ekiti, over the weekend, while awarding scholarships to 143 students to mark the 2020 edition of his scholarship scheme, and the launching of the Wole Olanipekun Foundation to empower youths and the downtrodden masses in Ekiti.
According to him, “whatever might have been the outcome of #EndSARS protests, the bitter takeaway there is that we must honestly, sincerely, passionately, unpretentiously take steps to reawaken Nigeria, to rethink Nigeria, to rebuild Nigeria, to rehabilitate Nigeria, to re-orientate Nigeria, to rekindle Nigeria, to readjust Nigeria, and to revitalise Nigeria.
“The bitterness among ethnic nationalities is so deep, and we need genuine reconciliation and restructuring of the polity. That small sore has become cancerous, and we need a radical surgery to extract it”.