STATE OF NATION: Stop the bleeding, end carnage now, CSOs urge Buhari
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Hundreds of
Civil Society Organisations in Nigeria have petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari to, as a matter of urgency, stop the escalating security concerns in the country.
They further alarmed that the first quarter of 2021 witnessed an all-time high fatalities mass atrocity incidences across the country.
The petitio signed by the Joint Action Civil Society Coalition/Nigeria Mourns Secretariat and made available to
Vanguard revealed that “Following its sharp increase of 43 per cent in mass atrocities 2020, Nigeria has continued to experience a decline in security across the nation. In the first quarter of 2021 (January to March), we recorded an all-time quarterly high of almost 2000 fatalities from mass atrocities incidents across the country. This week, across the 6 geopolitical zones, there were escalated combustions of violence resulting in even more deaths.
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Military spokesperson Onyema Nwachukwu said the military will uphold the country’s democracy and warned against plots to overthrow the government.
But criticisms of Buhari’s administration by civil societies, political and religious groups have grown in recent weeks due to escalating insecurity.
Raphael Adebayo, founder of the Free Nigeria Movement, a civil society group, says the government can no longer handle the situation.
“The insecurity in the country has affected every other sector of the country. Our economy is in shambles, education is a tartas [disaster], there’s no hope whatsoever, the poor is getting poorer and the presidency has run out of solutions,” he said.
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Ajisebutu founder and president of MansMark Records, an entertainment outfit and A.Y.ZERO clothing brand in Los Angeles, California, is an activist who launched many campaigns to address issues relating to Nigeria in the United States. In 1995 he organised several rallies to save the Nigerian human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 9 from being killed by the late General Sani Abacha and later joined forces with Nigerians in Oakland and San Francisco area to form Free Nigeria Movement. His current single “Make a Change” is already making waves, speaks on the Nigerian situation and how the government can effectively halt the rampaging herdsmen.
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#EndSARS promoters: CBN should stop freezing bank accounts of activists Falana
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…It’s not over yet, CSOs warn FG
…As CAN says freezing of the accounts uncalled for, Nigeria can’t nurture democracy by stifling freedom of expression
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri & Luminous Jannamike
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday vacated an order it made on November 4, 2020, which directed banks to freeze accounts that were linked to 20 alleged promoters of the #EndSARS protest that rocked the nation last year.
The court, in a ruling by Justice Ahmed Mohammed, ordered all the commercial banks affected by the order, to “immediately” unfreeze the accounts, even as it struck out the suit that was filed against the alleged #EndSARS promoters by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and its govenor, Mr. Godwin Emiefele.