The Defence for Yoruba People’s Right (DYPR), on Sunday withdraw its members from the purported, planed nationwide hunger protest slated to begin on the 1st of August, 2024.
The group had on Thursday in Akure, the capital of Ondo State vowed that there will be no going back in the already scheduled protest, adding that its members across the southwest geo-political zone would be fully participate in the hunger protest.
The Pan-Yoruba group socio-cultural organisation said the decision of its members to withdraw from the protest is targeted at giving the Federal Government to amend some of its policies and to give president Bola Tinubu more times so that he can resolve the economy hardship in the country.
The group in a release signed by its National President and Secretary, Otunba Muyideen Olamoyegun and Comrade Temitope Roberts , respectively at the end of its emergency meeting, held in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State.
The release made available to Journalists on Sunday, affirmed the determinations of the DYPR members numbering about nine thousand across the southwest geo-political zone of the country to withdrawn from the already planned protest.
Lamenting over what it called hunger and hardship in the countrym the Defence for Yoruba People’s Right particularly mentioned members of the National Union of Road Transport Worker (NURTW), Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) as well as other transport unions operating in the country as one of those that complementing the hike in the prices of foodstuff in the country.
The group equally mentioned market men and women who in the name of fuel subsidy hike the prices of their goods and products.
Noted that the taxes imposed on their members is one of the causes in the hike of transport across the country, however stressed the needs for the operators of transport business in the country to do more in complementing the government in the areas of making lives more bearable for the masses.
The group equally called on the Federal Government to shelve the policy of the removal of fuel subsidy, saying that the move would further bring down the hike in the prices of fuel in the country.
‘’We have withdrawn from the already planned nationwide protest, we only want to give the Federal Government more time to adjust some of its policies that are making lives more unbearable for the people of the country.
‘’Our initial decision is to join other numerous members of Nigeria youths to display our displeasure about some of the policies of the present administration.
‘’The effect of the 2020 ENDSARS protest still lingered forever in the minds of good numbers of Nigerian, we don’t want a repeat of such incident that would plunk the country into another crisis, these are many more reasons why we need to withdraw from the protest’’