{"id":43828,"date":"2024-07-26T13:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/august-1-dont-use-protest-as-cover-for-insurrection-anarchy-impi\/"},"modified":"2024-07-26T13:00:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T13:00:29","slug":"august-1-dont-use-protest-as-cover-for-insurrection-anarchy-impi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/august-1-dont-use-protest-as-cover-for-insurrection-anarchy-impi\/","title":{"rendered":"August 1: Don\u2019t use protest as cover for insurrection, anarchy \u2014 IMPI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Independent Media and Policy Initiative (IMPI) says protests are legitimate in a democracy, but should be used as cover for insurrection and anarchy.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Niyi Akinsiju, the chairman of IMPI policy analyst group, said although protests were acceptable in a constitutional democracy, no government would tolerate a call to anarchy and disturbance of public peace.<\/p>\n<p>He said it would seem that some individuals and groups were laying the groundwork for insurrection under the cover of a peaceful protest.<\/p>\n<p>Akinsiju said that a peaceful protest is often well organised, orderly and non-violent.<\/p>\n<p>IMPI said: \u201cFor several weeks, we have quietly watched as some individuals and groups mobilised for what they call\u2019 10 days of rage\u2019 starting on Aug.1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir mode of preparation, gauged from their actions and speeches, shows that they may be bracing up for riots, chaos, and violence, which are antithetical to peaceful protest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEngagement in peaceful protest as a means to reduce the cost of living should be seen from the perspective of actions being taken to ameliorate whatever conditions are considered unpalatable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInterestingly, within the time that some are mobilising for the protest, the administration of President Bola Tinubu has continued to roll out policies and programmes to address perceived challenges\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those policies, according to him, are targeted at stemming the effects of the global cost of living crisis as it affects the country. (NAN)<\/p>\n<p>August 1: Don\u2019t use protest as cover for insurrection, anarchy \u2014 IMPI<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent Media and Policy Initiative (IMPI) says protests are legitimate in a democracy, but should be used as cover&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21948,22115,15],"tags":[8,17485,17099,22116,705,190,22117,22118,180,600,3422],"class_list":["post-43828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-august-1","category-impi","category-news","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-anarchy","tag-august","tag-cover","tag-dont","tag-for","tag-impi","tag-insurrection","tag-news","tag-protest","tag-use"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}