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Group Plans Protest Against FG Over Fuel Shortages In Rivers by judondasylva(m): 9:48pm On Apr 10, 2016 |
Occupy Nigeria Group says there will be a
peaceful in Port Harcourt next week
Thursday April 14
– Fuel scarcity in Port Harcourt has seen the
rise of Petrol to N250 or N300 per litre
causing untold hardship
Protesting Nigerians
Occupy Nigeria Group has announced that
the will be a peaceful and peoples organized
protest in the city of Port Harcourt next week
Thursday April 14.
This protest which the group is said is aimed
at driving a strong citizenship position
against the inability of the Federal
government to address the burning perennial
fuel scarcity, zero Megawatts and total lack
of electricity amidst increased tariff,
incessant/fraudulent bank charges on poor
Nigerians among other serious economic
matters.
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lost over N200 million to fraud and forgeries
According to the facilitator of the Group,
Livingstone Wechie, he said the protest will
serve as a platform to proffer a lasting
solution to this untold hardship by Nigerians
which has resulted in incalculable losses,
shutting down of businesses, increase in
crime and criminality, mass job losses, lack
of any economic policy direction by the
Federal government, lack of projects among
others.
Wechie was also heads the ‘Integrity Group’
that signed petition sent to the National
Assembly against former Governor Chibuike
Rotimi Amaechi and Minister of Transport
alleging financial fraud and other sundry
offences requesting that he should be
confirmed as Minister of federal republic of
Nigeria.
Wechie said: “We believe the government has
exhibited gross ineptitude and incapacity in
its dealings. Thus, it has continued to play
the blame game on the past Goodluck
Jonathan administration as a coverup to its
failures which is a betrayal of its promises to
Nigerians during the campaigns and elections
that brought it to power.
“Thus the attitude of a travelling President in
a travailing country can no longer be
acceptable. Therefore we want to use this
mass protest to creatively challenge and
engage the government on what Nigerians
want and how they want their future to be
like”.
Occupy Nigeria Group also said that some of
the group’s major objectives are to pressure
government to solve the biting petroleum and
power problems without any further delays or
excuses and press home the demand for a
quick review and investigation of the
fraudulent/incessant bank charges made
against the banking public.
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solicitor-general of Lagos speaks out
Other demands include: a practical economic
policy direction by the Federal government as
a way of reviving this current economy that
is almost brought to a halt and to exercise
citizenship rights towards ensuring that
government binds itself to do the bidding of
the people.
Occupy Nigeria also said other reasons for
the protest is to “put government in check
and challenge it legally, lawfully, peacefully,
creatively and pro-actively in its program for
the masses, particularly in line with the
promises it made on party platform on its
way to power,
also drive and motivate an active and
conscious citizenship participation in
governance.
Fuel scarcity in Port Harcourt,Rivers
State,especially Petrol sells between N250
and N300 per litre causing untold hardship.
The protest,which is tagged Occupy Nigeria
Season 2 will involve people from various civil
society organizations including: Civil Liberties
organization, National Association of Nigerian
Students,NANS, market women groups,
student unions, Labour, Social media activists
and several other professional bodies and
interest groups.
Meanwhile, outspoken Ekiti state governor,
Mr Ayodele Fayose has said that the federal
government was planning to impose more
hardships on Nigerians by increasing Value
Added Tax (VAT) from the current five per
cent to 10 per cent.
Fayose described the move as insensitive to
the plight of Nigerians who are suffering from
the bad economic policies of the President
Mohammadu Buhari led All Progressives
Congress (APC) government.
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Re: Group Plans Protest Against FG Over Fuel Shortages In Rivers by otokx(m): 10:05pm On Apr 10, 2016 |
They should take their protest to Ekiti state, that Thursday is very bad timing, youth corpers will be passing out that day. We do not need problem in Port Harcourt or anywhere in Rivers State. |
Re: Group Plans Protest Against FG Over Fuel Shortages In Rivers by judondasylva(m): 10:51pm On Apr 10, 2016 |
hmmmmmm |
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