At a meeting with the organizers yesterday, the IGP suggested confined protests in identified locations and advised against street rallies.

However, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, one of the lawyers for the Take It Back Movement, one of the groups organizing the nationwide protests, rejected the proposal of the IGP.

Human rights lawyer Femi Falana, SAN, representatives of the Nigerian Bar Association, other lawyers, civil society organizations as well as some arrowheads of the planned protests attended the virtual meeting.

The planned protests against economic hardship, which are gaining traction on social media, have been scheduled to be held across all states of the Federation as well as the nation’s capital Abuja in August.

The police, military and the Department of State Services had warned against Kenya-styled protests.