Tuesday, January 28, 2014
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The Executive
Secretary of Anti-Corruption Network and former member of the House of
Representatives, Mr. Dino Melaye
They were protesting against what
they described as "impunity in Rivers State and abuse of office
by the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Joseph Mbu."
During the protest, tear gas
canisters were fired indiscriminately even at journalists. Some of the
protesters slumped and fainted in the process.
The battle-ready policemen had
earlier condoned off the Federal Secretariat area, Abuja, where the protest was
billed to hold.
The ACN protesters, in their bid to
hold the rally, decided to march from the organisation's office to the
secretariat, but met an unyielding police blockade.
The security operatives fired tear
gas canisters at the demonstrators, which resulted in a stampede, with some
sustaining injuries.
While describing the situation in
Rivers as "endemic, systemic and becoming
contagious," the
ACN boss said for Nigeria to be rescued, "we should stand up
He said, "We
must do everything to rescue this country from the hands of these economic
canker worm. There is intimidation, incessant arrests, threats and
assassination attempts on my life.
But for me, I am resolute because the battle to deliver this country
from economic canker worms, financial vultures and inept leadership, as I have
repeatedly said, is a battle of no retreat, no surrender."
Nigerians, he said, must creep out of
their cocoons and become change agents.
Melaye added, "We
need to call a bloodless revolution that will transform this nation from the
hands of these economic canker worms and financial scavengers.
Nigeria is not only sick but also suffering from a dreadful continental
abnormality.
In an unjust society, silence is a crime, this is the time in the
history of Nigeria where silence is no longer golden.
People must come out and speak because the day you stop eating is the
day you start dying.
Where dictatorship becomes legalised, revolution becomes a right."
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