BREAKING: #FearlessInOctober Protest Breaks Out Lagos With Contemporary Calls for (FULL LIST)
#FearlessInOctober Protest has kicked off in Lagos with recent calls for.
PoliticalNews Nigeria studies that the #FearlessInOctober protest kicked off in Lagos State on Tuesday morning, with protesters asking the federal government to evaluate its insurance policies amid ongoing {economic} hardship.
Tuesday, October 1, is Nigeria’s Independence Day and it’s precisely 64 years for the reason that nation gained independence from British colonial rule. The protesters who got here out in giant numbers say mentioned that October 1 is ‘Nationwide Survival Day’ and never ‘Independence Day’.
Whereas monitoring the protest at Ikeja, FIJ noticed protesters holding placards with inscriptions reminiscent of, ‘Cut back Petrol Worth to N197 Per Litre; Finish Shortage’, ‘Finish All Assaults On Democratic Rights’, ‘Free Adaramola Michael Lenin and Others Now’ and ‘Reverse Electrical energy Tariff Hike’.
In a video recorded by FIJ’s reporter, the protesters may also be heard singing, ‘No one can say no’ and ‘Eh eh eh, yawa go dey‘.
The #EndBadGovernance Motion Lagos State additionally issued a pamphlet on the protest floor, containing 10 cardinal calls for.
A few of their calls for embody a reversal of the hike in gas costs and electrical energy tariffs, a discount within the costs of meals, an finish to insecurity, banditry, terrorism and violent crimes, the discharge of the #EndSARS and #EndBadGovernance protesters, journalists, whistleblowers and different victims of state-sanctioned repression.
Additionally they need the federal government to implement the N70,000 new nationwide minimal wage in any respect ranges, scale back the price of governance, present free and obligatory training at main and secondary faculty ranges, prosecute corrupt public officeholders, create extra respectable jobs for all and provoke real electoral reform.