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President Muhammadu Buhari has been accused of being indifferent to the sufferings of Nigerians and unwilling to provide leadership in addressing killings across the country.
Speaking at the one-day National Day of Mourning in Minna, the Niger State capital, the State Coordinator, Mr. Mathew Oladele said there is a growing toll of massacre, industrial scale abduction and lawless abuse of Nigerians all over the country.
According to him, “This week alone over 130 people were massacred in two separate incidents in Benue and Plateau states, without drawing a response from the president. The incessant killing of security Officers across the country and the clear absence of political will or leadership from the president to bring this deadly trend to an end.
Dear Patriots, We stand before you today with much pains and concern as we mark the 4th National Day of mourning in remembrance of all victims of violent killings across the country. The spate of attacks and increased number of killings of innocents Nigerians in almost all the States in the Federation is an issue […]
CSOs Mourn Victims of Violent Attacks Across Nigeria, Demand End To Killings
They accused the Nigerian government of dividing the citizens along ethnic and religious lines instead of finding a lasting solution to the killings in the country.
by SaharaReporters, New York
May 28, 2021
A coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) on Friday in Abuja mourned and honoured thousands of Nigerians who had lost their lives in different violent attacks across the country.
The group also demanded an end to the senseless killings going on in the country.
The procession which was tagged, National Day of Mourning was an initiative by citizens aimed to express solidarity and demand accountability for the security and welfare of all Nigerians.
Nseobong Okon-Ekong writes that Nigerians have refused to heed the call by civil society groups to register their displeasure with the state of affairs across the country by participating a series of mass actions, participate in solemn assemblies across the country to commemorate the 4th National Day of Mourning and Remembrance of Victims of Mass Atrocities on May 28 and they are not likely to boycott all Democracy Day activities on May 29 in protest against the deplorable state of Nigeria’s democracy
A couple of days ago, a seemingly innocuous gathering of a activists took after which they all spoke with one voice concerning the increasing insecurity in Nigeria, raising an alarm about its wider implications.
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Dublin, September 11: Heading home from work, shocked by what I’d seen in the previous few hours, I wondered if people on the train felt the same as I did. Were they horrified? Were they feeling sick? Were they in shock?
A group of schoolboys, loud with nervous excitement, talked about what they’d seen. But, for the most part, there was little conversation.
That night and over the following few days, the words of Mary McAleese, Bertie Ahern, Mary Harney, the thousands of Irish people who stood in line for hours to sign books of condolences, and the near complete closure of Ireland and overflowing churches on September 15 for the National Day of Mourning convinced me that, yes, Irish people were feeling as I did.