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Emma Sunday, Port Harcourt
Rights group, the Defence For Human Rights and Democracy (DHRD) has called on the Federal and States governments and the nation’s security forces to shelve the plan clamp down on citizens, who will be trooping out in their millions on the 1st of August, to freely exercise their fundamental human rights of peaceful protest, expression, assembly and better welfare as enshrined in the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended.
Chairman, Defence For Human Rights and Democracy in Rivers State, Comrade Clifford Solomon, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt on yesterday said the protest tagged “END BAD GOVERNANCE, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH” is necessitated on the failure of the government to uphold the constitution they swore in protecting lives and properties and prioritizing the welfare of citizens.
He said, “In Nigeria, life has become unbearable as the economy is inflicting extreme poverty on citizens and as a result, many are committing suicide due to hunger, starvation and lack of basic needs.
“DHRD, is deeply worried why a country that is so rich but 90% of her citizens are living in abject poverty while the remaining percentage are living extravagant life with tax payers monies and the peoples’ resources.
“We therefore, demand that the government immediately reverses her obnoxious and anti-people’s policies, programs and corruption rather fix the economy and overhaul the system.
“We equally ask the government to create jobs to engage millions of youths and revamp our constitutions for optimal functionality for the benefit of all.”
Solomon hinted that no amount of intimidation from the government will make Nigerians to surrender their rights to the oppressor.
He however, called on the International Community to keep an eagle eye on the Nigerian state not to arrest, intimidated and clampdown on peaceful protesters for merely expressing their dissatisfaction.
