Nationwide Protest: “Stealing and destroying properties not right” – Toke Makinwa to youths

Toke Makinwa, a Nollywood actress and media figure, has condemned people who are using the ongoing statewide demonstration to trash and vandalize fellow Nigerians’ property.

Recall that on Thursday, August 1, a cross-section of Nigerians marched out to start a nationwide demonstration against the country’s severe economic hardship.


According to reports, some hoodlums used the peaceful protest to plunder government and private property in various parts of the country.

Makinwa reacted on her X handle, saying it was inappropriate.

She pointed out that the people whose properties were being plundered are going through the same difficulties. Toke Makinwa stated:

“Destroying properties and stealing from your fellow Nigerians who are passing through the same hardship is not right at all. This is very sad,”

In response to a critic, she stressed that her tweet in no way implied that protesters were responsible for the atrocities. She wrote:

“I did not say the stealing and vandalism was done by protesters, the people who have their things stolen are Nigerians too, going through the same hardship. What have they done to deserve this?”

In other news, Charles Oputa, aka Charly Boy, a popular veteran entertainer, has stated that work has only just begun following the first day of the nationwide EndBadGovernance protest.

Charly Boy believes Nigerians should keep up the pressure until the administration recognizes that the tide is changing.

He said that the protest demonstrated that the majority of Nigerians had realized that the government did not care about them.

On Monday, Nigerians protested in large numbers across many states.

Reacting to the protest, Charly Boy posted on X: “Brave, Strong and determined Nigerian youths, una make me proud today.

“First: Una congratulations on a job well done. But our work just start.

“As most of us don awake from our slumber in the realization say gofment no care for us, no send us, we no go gree for people wey no gree for us. We must keep fighting to retrieve our stolen future.

“Let’s keep the pressure up, because this devilish government must understand that the tide is changing.

They must never feel safe again, unless dey start doing the needful.

“The Salvation Of Nigeria Lies In The Hands of its Exceptional Youths. I Twale for Una.”