CLO Advises Tinubu to End Hunger, Poverty in Nigeria Now Before Anger Rises

Emma Okonji

A human rights group, the Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO), has called on President Bola Tinubu to urgently address the prevalent economic challenges affecting Nigerians.

CLO, in a statement, weekend, called on Tinubu to immediately put an end to hunger and poverty in Nigeria before the anger of Nigerians rises higher.
The group also slammed the country’s leaders for being insensitive to the plight of the people, saying the time has come to confront leaders who were insensitive to the sufferings faced by Nigerians.
President of the human rights group, Igho Akeregha, said in the statement that President Tinubu has not demonstrated enough commitment to advance the welfare of the  citizens.

He pointed out that the country was faced with enormous crises such as high cost of food, commodities, poor infrastructure, prohibitive cost of energy like electricity and fuel, insecurity amid about 45 per cent unemployment rate that has made the country uncompetitive at the global stage.
He further stressed that the act of awarding national honours to some politicians like  Senate President, Goodwill Akpabio, Speaker of the House of Representative Tajudeen Abbas and their deputies, who had failed to deliver on the expectations of Nigerians was a reflection of the level of insensitivity on the part of government especially at a time when citizens were frustrated and hungry.

Akeregha further noted that Nigerians were tired of unfulfilled promises such as the promise to release Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses, when the President unilaterally removed petroleum subsidy on May 29 last year and the yet-to-be fulfilled promise to implement true federation and deliver a peoples constitution that guaranteed equality for all, justice and freedom for the people.

“The failure of the state to address the worsening living conditions of Nigerians led to the #Endbadgovernance protests and the response of the President Tinubu in his Independence day broadcast was the promise to give buses to the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), and the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) as well as plan for a 30 – day national Youth Conference. The CLO sees this deliberate diversion from reality,” Akeregha said.