Causes, consequences and control of student protests

control of student protests, especially the EndSARS (Special AntiRobbery Squad) protest. A descriptive survey was adopted for
the study. A total of 600 undergraduates, selected by multi-stage
sampling, participated in the study. Three research questions
were raised and a questionnaire titled Causes, Consequences
and Control of Youth Protest Questionnaire (CCCYPQ) was used
to collect data. The findings showed that the protest was caused
by extra-judicial killings, assaults, harassment, extortion, bad
governance, and youth unemployment. In addition, the findings
indicated that the consequences of the protest include
destruction of lives and property, hacking of the websites of
public ministries, departments, agencies and corporate
organizations, destruction of public infrastructural facilities, and
disruption of academic activities in schools. The various control
measures include disbandment of SARS, compensation for
victims of police brutality, and provision of skills acquisition
programmes and employment opportunities for youths. There
were no significant gender differences in the perceived causes,
consequences and control of the protest. Based on the findings,
it was recommended that dialogue and collaborative decisionmaking should be employed in controlling student protest.