FearlessInOctober: Organizers Make 17 Demands From Nigerian Govt
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The Nigerian Government has been presented with 17 non-negotiable demands ahead of the FearlessInOctober nationwide protest.
The FearlessInOctober nationwide protest is the second leg of the 10 days EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protest against hunger and hardship in the country.
The upcoming protest is scheduled to commence on October 1.
However, one of the organizers of the EndBadGovernance protest, Omoyele Sowore released the 17 non-negotiable demands.
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The organizers demanded the immediate and unconditional release of all EndBadGovernance protesters detained, unfreezing of all the detained protesters assets and bank accounts, while adequately compensating them for the untold distress.
He called for the removal and prosecution of the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, the Commissioner of Police of the FCT, Bernard Igwe, and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Nyesom Wike.
Sowore called for the scrapping of the 1999 Constitution and replacing it with a people-made Constitution for the Federal Republic of Nigeria through a Sovereign National Conference immediately followed by a National Referendum, toss the Senate arm of the Nigerian Legislative System, keep the House of Representatives (HOR), and make lawmaking a part-time endeavour, pay Nigerian workers a minimum wage of nothing less than N250,000 monthly.
He also demanded that the Nigerian government should “Invest heavily in education and give Nigerian students grants, not loans.
“Aggressively pursue free and compulsory education for children across Nigeria, release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu unconditionally and demilitarize the South East.
“ALL #ENDSARS and political detainees must also be released and compensated, renationalize publicly owned enterprises sold to government officials and cronies, reinstate a corruption-free subsidy regime to reduce hunger, starvation, and multidimensional poverty.”
Sowore demanded the probe of past and present leaders for looting and deposit the recovered funds in a special account to fund education, healthcare, and infrastructure, restructure Nigeria to accommodate its diversity, resource control, decentralization, and regional development.
Calling for an end to banditry, terrorism, and violent crimes in Nigeria, Sowore said the security agencies should be reformed to stop the continuous human rights violations and duplication of security agencies and enhance the physical security of Nigerian citizens.
The former presidential candidate demanded for the establishment of a Special Energy Fund immediately to drive massive, corruption-free power sector development.
He further called for an immediate reconstitution of the Nigerian Electoral Body “to remove corrupt individuals and partisan hacks appointed to manipulate elections, massive investment in public works and industrialization will help employ Nigeria’s teeming youths, massive shake-up in the Nigerian judiciary to remove cabals of corrupt generations of judges and judicial officers that continue denying everyday citizens access to real justice, diaspora Voting.”
