Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt
President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria
Occupy Nigeria Group has announced that there will be a peaceful and peoples organized protest in the city of Port Harcourt next week precisely on Thursday April 14, 2016.
This protest which the group say 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.
According to the facilitator of the Group, Livingstone Wechie, who political observers believe is ardent supporter of Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State said the protest will serve as a platform to proffer a lasting solution to this untold hardship on 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 also heads the ‘Integrity Group’ that sent a petition to the National Assembly against former governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi alleging financial fraud and other sundry offences requesting that he should not be confirmed as Minister of federal republic of Nigeria.
Speaking more on the planned protest, he 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 for 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 …Read More
Source:: PM Newspaper
