A former Director of the Department of State Services, DSS, Mike Ejiofor, has said the body language of former President Goodluck Jonathan was partly responsible for why the 2012 anti-subsidy removal protest didnt turn violent.
Ejiofor said this when he appeared as a guest on Arise TV Morning Show on Friday.
He said the protesters were orderly because the situation in the country then was not as bad as it is now.
Vanguard reports that the DSS said it had identified sponsors of the protest and warned intending protesters billed to commence on August 1 not to proceed with it as it is not in Nigerias interest.
Ejiofor said, The 2012 protest didnt turn violent, one, because of the body language of the sitting president then. He allowed everything to go and the situation was not as bad as what we have now. Now, it can be exploited because people are hungry, desperate and want to use anything to vent their anger.
