EndSARS protest showed Nigeria requires genuine restructuring — Olanipekun

 

To expend N24m on youth, widows

By Rotimi Ojomoyela – Ado Ekiti

A legal Icon, Chief Wole Olanipekun(SAN), has said the EndSARS protests was an indication that the nation, needs a genuine restructuring.

He said the crisis was a tip of the ice berg compared to what await the nation if the needful is 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 countryhome during the crisis, had put policing system in jeopardy due to tactical withdrawal of the police from the community.

back link building services=0></a></div><h2>READ ALSO: <span><strong><a href=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/11/endsars-osun-judicial-panel-hears-three-petitions-grants-adjournment-request/ >EndSARS: Osun Judicial Panel hears three petitions, grants adjournment request</a></strong></span><br/></h2><p>Olanipekun called on individuals to partner governments to resolve youth unemployment and the attendant restiveness, saying his foundation would expend a sum of N15 million to empower  300 youths and N9 million on the aged and widows resident in Ekiti.</p><p>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 youth and downtrodden masses in Ekiti.</p><p>According to him, “whatever might have been the outcome of EndSARS protest, the bitter take away there is that we must honestly, sincerely,  impassionately, unpretentiously take step to reawaken Nigeria, to rethink Nigeria, to rebuild Nigeria , to rehabilitate Nigeria ,to reorientate Nigeria, to rekindle Nigeria , to readjust Nigeria and to revitalise Nigeria.</p><p>“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”.</p><div class='code-block code-block-5' style='margin: 8px 0; clear: both;'> <a href=https://www.adhang.com/guest-posting-services/ ><img class=lazy src=