Nigerian activist lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, has warned that Nigeria is on a dangerous path as citizens struggle to meet basic needs like food and survival.
Adeyanju expressed that the Nigerian government should view the just concluded protests as a clear indication of the widespread hardship facing the populace.
In an interview with Al-Jazeera, Adeyanju urged Nigerian leaders to learn from the experiences of Bangladesh, where similar struggles led to public unrest.
�This country is heading for the rocks because something eventually must give. A situation where people can no longer feed and barely survive, and then protest becomes inevitable,� Adeyanju stated.
He drew parallels with the situation in Bangladesh, where citizens, pushed to their limits, had no option but to rise up.
�We have seen what happened in Bangladesh where the people were pushed to the brink, and in such a situation, the people had no other choice than to bounce back.
�The government is still very lucky and fortunate that protest was announced and a date, venue were given, but unfortunate for the government, the do not know it yet,� he added.
Adeyanju further criticized politicians, suggesting they are oblivious to the suffering of the general population.
�The politicians think they are immune from the suffering in the country. Someone gave a brilliant analogy, which I would like to re-echo, that when the Titanic was sinking, people on the upper deck didn�t know what those below were facing.
�The people in the economy already knew what was going on, that the ship was sinking, and they were already choking from the pressure of the water,� he said.
