The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu has pleaded with the Federal Government to make sure the planned nationwide protest by Nigerians doesn't take place in the country. In a recent interview he had with Arise News Television on Thursday which was covered by Sahara Reporters, Mr. Benjamin Kalu stated clearly that this upcoming protest will spread across Africa if it isn't prevented.
He claimed to be quite disappointed that Nigerians are planning to follow the footsteps of Kenya by engaging in a nationwide protest. He explained that Kenya is a very small country compared to Nigeria which means the way and pattern they do their things should be quite different from ours.
According to Benjamin Kalu, countries like Kenya should be the one following our footsteps rather than us Nigerians adopting their method of engaging in these kinds of protests.
During the course of his interview, he said: "Why the news about the protest got to the highest point at the moment is because Kenya had an outing.
"Kenya is a smaller country compared to 240 million people. Kenya is a small country compared to Nigeria. We can't be taking examples of this kind of ugly outing from countries like Kenya.
"I don't mince words. I said it on the floor of the parliament. They (Kenya) should copy from us. They should copy that when policies are laid down, these policies take time to mature for implementation.
And we should show them that there are non-kinetic approaches to the resolutions of issues rather than conflict, coercion and crisis.
"Why are we the bigger brothers in Africa if we do what lesser countries do? What example are we giving to them?"
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