ActionAid Nigeria has referred to as at the Federal Govt to assure the rights and protection of Nigerian teenagers making plans a national protest forming on August 1st.
The organisation emphasized the worth of voters’ constitutional rights to non violent meeting and protest.
ActionAid Nigeria, a non-governmental organisation running to advertise social justice, human rights, and poverty eradication in Nigeria, is an associate of ActionAid Global, an international federation of NGOs working in over 45 nations.
In a remark on Monday, the Nation Director, Andrew Mamedu, mentioned, “We firmly support citizens’ constitutional rights to peaceful assembly and protest. Every Nigerian has the inalienable right to voice their grievances and demand accountability from their government without fear of violence or retribution.”
The remark highlighted the federal government’s failure to handle voters’ issues, eminent to repeated violent clampdowns on protesters.
It mentioned, “The federal government must not allow the violent repression of peaceful protesters to continually repeat itself. Any such actions would be a severe violation of human rights and undermine the democratic principles that our nation strives to uphold.”
ActionAid Nigeria demanded that the federal government deal with the foundation reasons of the protest, grant enough coverage for protesters, and decide to fighting violent repression.
The organisation additionally appealed to protesters to preserve relief and sequence all through demonstrations.
It added, “We also enjoin citizens and politicians inclined to form anti-protest groups to respect the rights of their fellow Nigerians to peaceful assembly, and any violations of these rights must be met with the full extent of the law.”
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