Protest: ‘Reduce rice to N20,000, fuel to N200 per litre’ – Pastor Giwa to Tinubu

The senior pastor of Awaiting The Second Coming Of Christ Ministry, Adewale Giwa, on Sunday urged President Bola to reduce the price of rice to N20,000 per bag and petrol to N200 per liter.

Pastor Giwa also urged Tinubu to reopen all the land borders if he wants to tackle the challenges facing Nigerians.

He made the appeal in a statement he personally signed.

According to Giwa: “Meanwhile, I would like to implore President Bola Tinubu to do everything possible to reduce the price of rice to N20,000 per bag, petroleum price to N200 per liter.

“If the president is serious about tackling the challenges facing Nigeria, he ought to have reopened all the land borders I earlier advised.”

Giwa also accused the organizers of the August 1 nationwide protest as rabble-rousers.

He warned that the real protest will start in the markets, churches, and streets against the government at the right time.

Giwa said: “On the issue of planned protests, the organizers are rabble-rousers who intend to use the current economic hardship to score political points. They are mainly social media users who have sympathy for certain politicians.

“The real protest will start in the markets, churches, streets, etc, without informing the government. What is the essence of a planned protest already announced?

“When biblical Ehud wanted to rescue the Israelites from the hands of Eglon, King of Moab, in the book of Judges chapter 3, he didn’t inform anyone what he wanted to do. Ehud was a hero with a disability that God turned into an ability.

“King Eglon chose to keep Israel in a subservient position and forced them to pay tribute rather than just annihilating them.

“However, the Israelites cried to God, and He sent Ehud to deliver them from the hands of Moabites. Ehud made himself a double-edged sword and fastened it to his right side under his clothes when he and the other few representatives were going to meet King Eglon. They got there and presented the tribute. On reaching the stone images near Gilgal, he himself went back to Eglon and killed him without informing anyone. That put an end to 18 years of oppression by Moabites.

“You don’t disclose your plans to your enemies because they will surely prepare for you. When it is time for the poor to protest, they will do that without intimidation, harassment and killing.”