#ENDBADGOVERNANCE: FG Blocks N83bn Protest Funds

The Federal Government has revealed that it has traced at least N83 billion in cryptocurrency and fiat money that was channeled towards the recent nationwide #EndBadGovernance protests in Nigeria.

According to a presentation by the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, at the inaugural meeting of the Council of State, the government was able to block $38 million in four cryptocurrency wallets that were used to receive protest donations.

Ribadu also disclosed that the government identified an European individual as the “mastermind of the proliferation of foreign flags during the protests” and will soon be declared wanted by the police.

In addition, local collaborators traced to Abuja, Kaduna, and Kano have already been arrested for their involvement in funding the protests.

The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, stated that no political actor would be allowed to instigate an unconstitutional regime change, describing the protests as an attempt to achieve a forceful change of government.

“Any change of government has to be through the ballots and not through the barrel of the gun or insurrection or any other unconstitutional means,” Alake said

The government’s crackdown on the protest funding and alleged foreign interference comes after President Bola Tinubu warned demonstrators not to “let the enemies of democracy use you to promote an unconstitutional agenda that will set us back on our democratic journey.”