The Rule of Legislation and Responsibility Advocacy Centre has written to the Nationwide Human Rights Fee to call for the reduce of probably the most arrested #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protesters.
RULAAC, in a letter on Tuesday signed through its Government Director, Okechukwu Nwanguma, and made to be had to reporters, described the ongoing arrests of electorate taking part in, or related to the non violent protest in Nigeria in opposition to financial sadness and frequent struggling in Nigeria below the President Bola Tinubu’s management as undemocratic.
The letter learn, “RULAAC writes in order to the eye of the Nationwide Human Rights Fee and to request the fee to intrude to conserve the reduce of Mr Babatunde Oluajo and others kidnapped and these days detained incommunicado through operatives of the Condition Safety Provider.
“We gained details about the arrest of Mr Tunde Oluajo (a.ok.a. Sankara) a human rights activist and anti-corruption campaigner, and Michael Adaramoye, the Nationwide Coordinator of Adolescence Rights Marketing campaign, in Abuja. They and others had been arrested through the Condition Safety Provider (SSS) at about 2 am on Monday, August 5, 2024
“RULAAC views the continued clamp down on citizens participating in, or associated with, the peaceful protest in Nigeria against economic hardship and widespread suffering in Nigeria under the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration as undemocratic.”
The gang insisted that it’s not an offence when electorate peacefully protest to name the eye of the federal government to their plight and the rigors in their fellow electorate.
The remark stated, “The electorate are merely making reputable calls for for excellent governance. The repressive clampdown through safety companies underscores the federal government’s insensitivity and despotic disposition.
“The continuing clampdown on protesters and protest organisers in Nigeria is certainly opposite to the Tinubu govt’s declare that it recognizes the rights to autonomy of non violent meeting and resonance.
“It reflects an intolerance for dissent and demonstrates insincerity and hypocrisy by the same government that acknowledges the right of citizens to freedom of expression and the right to demand good governance devoid of corruption.”
The gang additional famous that such movements confirmed a dearth of appreciate for human rights and democratic beliefs and undermined the federal government’s credibility in selling and protective those rights.
Consistent with them, the importance of pressure, intimidation, and arbitrary arrests to keep back non violent protesters is unwelcome.
The remark added, ”The importance of pressure, intimidation, and arbitrary arrests to keep back non violent protesters is unwelcome in a democratic people and is going in opposition to the rules of autonomy of resonance and meeting as enshrined in world human rights treaties that Nigeria has ratified.
“RULAAC screams at the fee to assure the rapid reduce of all electorate arrested through the SSS and alternative safety companies in reference to the non violent workout in their democratic rights.
“The government should respect citizens’ rights to protest peacefully and dialogue with them to address their grievances rather than clamp down on them.”