You Negotiated With Terrorists, Do Same To ENDSARS Protesters, Falana Tells FG

Femi Falana, Senior Advocate of NIgeria (SAN), has counselled the Federal Government to negotiate with the ENDSARS protesters as it did with terrorists in the North East.

Falana said this when he featured on Channels TV programme, Politics Today, on Wednesday.

“The government must engage in dialogue with leaders of the protesting groups,” said the Senior Advocate.

“After all, the government negotiates with terrorists so why don’t you negotiate with patriots like the young men and women that are protesting all over the country.”

The human right lawyer said the dialogue between the government and the protesters must be followed with genuine steps to meet the demands of #EndSWAT protesters, adding that it remained the best way the government could end the nationwide protests.

“There has to be a full-fledged inquiry that will support a judicial commission of inquiry not a judicial commission of inquiry that will seat in camera (private) like the Ayo Salami judicial commission of inquiry. This one will seat in the open like the Oputa Panel and they will investigate the atrocities, the outright killings,” he added.

“Finally, I’m calling on the state Attorneys-General because 98% of criminal offences in Nigeria are state offences. Let our Attorneys-General take over the prosecution of cases in Nigeria. Moreso, that the Police Act 2020 has prohibited policemen and women from prosecuting in our courts so, the state government will have to engage lawyers to take over the prosecution of cases in all our courts.

“If the government can put all this in place in the next three days, the young men and women can now be persuaded to leave the streets.”