You have a point. I've once heard that the IMF happens to be a major contributor to the problems that the country is going through. Countries that borrows money from them are automatically devaluating their own currencies in return, and I guess most of us know about this. This is the same thing the IMF planned to do in El Salvador, but Nayib Bukele(the El Salvador president) didn't welcome them. I believe you've come across news of IMF telling El Salvador that they are making a mistake by making Bitcoin a legal tender. This people wants to see so many countries fall apart, but unfortunately for the leaders wey we get, them think say na better thing the IMF dey do.
I'm not sure of how the whole security agency and civilians thing will go in terms of protest. It's the duty of every security agencies to listen and adhere to the instructions from their superior above, and their superior above are the ones that take direct instructions from the government. You don't expect a junior officer to go against the laws of his superior when the superior readily accepts instructions from the government. If you want to see these security agencies on your side, then it all depends on the instructions that the superior gives, which won't happen because they are well fed with corrupt money. This is the problem we face when the people in power are in charge of appointing security heads, which isn't suppose to be so, because such agency needs to be neutral.