July 30, (THEWILL) – Members of the Nigeria Patriotic Front Movement (NPFM), Northern chapter, have said they are ready to die during the impending nationwide protest against hunger and bad governance in the country.
They made the vow in a communique read to newsmen in Kano on Tuesday, by Comrade Anas Adamu on behalf of the group.
“We are ready to die. Our children are already dying at home; some of them are in prison for flimsy offences. The system has criminalised them.
“We are all aware that Nigeria is facing a major governance and economic crisis, which the government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has, in 15 months, exacerbated.
“The regime’s neoliberal economic policies have led to steep rise in petrol pump price, devaluation of the Naira, rising bank interest rates, runaway inflation, and grand corruption amongst the political class and their corporate associates.
“In addition, there is a high cost of public governance at the top, and mass hardship, hunger and starvation at the bottom of the social pyramid.
“With public services crumbling and state assets privatised under a political class that is running government as a money-making venture, we the undersigned groups are left with no option but to provide leadership and announce our unflinching support and active roles in promoting the proposed August 1 protest against Bad Governance in Nigeria,” Adamu said.
He said members of the group would troop to the streets of Kano on August 1, to stage peaceful protests and would sustain the protests till August 10, to enable their voices to be heard.
During the protest, he said no participant would be allowed to carry any kind of weapons and must conduct themselves peacefully and responsibly.
“We call on the people of Kano State and Nigeria at large to come out in their numbers on the 1st of August and exercise their human rights to freely protest against bad governance at all levels of government in the country. And we call on foreign imperial actors to stay out of our domestic affairs,” the group added.
Abdullahi Yusuf is a seasoned journalist, communicator and was previously the Deputy Editor-In-Chief and Zonal Manager, News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, Jos, where he retired on December 15, 2021
