Organisers of planned protest in Kano reveal identities, list demands
Story from Aliyu ASKIRA
Kano State mobilisers for the nationwide planned protest against bad governance have revealed their identities and rolled out demands and directives for the August 1st 2024 demonstration.
The organisers include at least 13 civil society organisations under the aegis of the Northern Chapter of the Nigeria Patriotic Front Movement (NPFM), led by Anas Adamu.
At a press conference on Tuesday evening in Kano, the group issued a communiqué declaring its intention to hold the protest as planned.
In the communiqué, the organisers listed their demands to the Nigerian government, which include reducing the pump price of petrol to between N160 and N200, reducing inflation on foodstuffs, housing and electricity, lowering interest rates, reducing the cost of governance and ending insecurity in the country.
After listing the demands, the organisers declared their intention to stage the protest as planned and issued directives accordingly.
According to the directives in a communiqué, participants should not carry any form of weapon; they should neither attempt to harass anybody nor engage in any form of violence.
Protesters have also been forbidden from looting people’s property.
“Our protest is peaceful and consistent with rights enshrined in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended).
“We call on the people of Kano State and Nigeria at large to come out in their numbers on the 1st of August and exercise their human rights to freely protest against bad governance at all levels of government in the country.
“And we call on foreign imperial actors to stay out of our domestic affairs. Let us ignore all paid agents profiting from the mass sufferings that are now trying to intimidate and persuade us to speak out and protest against unjust governance.
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“If we do not protest now, how would the government take us seriously? It is time for us to stamp our authority as citizens so that those in power will not continue to take us for granted.
“This August 1st protest is just the first step. It will go on whether or not those in power like it,” the communiqué outlined.
The group stressed that President Bola Tinubu must listen to the voice of the people and change the course now before it is too late.
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