By Danielle Lobito
Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin in-between Ganiyat and Mohammed Fawehinmi
Some Nigerian policemen fired tear gas at peaceful protesters yesterday at Maryland, Lagos. The protest was to commemorate the 40-day memorial of late anti-fuel subsidy removal protesters that were felled by police and army bullets in Nigeria.
The police arrested some protesters including activists Dr Dipo Fasina, Ganiyat Fawehinmi and Mohammed Fawehinmi. Ganiyat Fawehinmi is the widow of late activist lawyer Chief Gani Fawehinmi and Barrister Mohammed Fawehinmi is his son. According to The Nation newspaper, they were later released on bail last night after the ‘intervention’ of prominent lawyer Femi Falana.
The Nigerian police have gone berserk. Most of them are useless cowards that cannot face Boko Haram terrorists but prefer to attack innocent people. The Committee on Police Reorganization led by Parry Osayande looks like a PR gimmick. Members of the committee may need to 'wake' up and stop 'dozing'.
We said it before and we will say it again. The Presidency should shut down the Ministry of Police Affairs until 2015 and tell the minister to go home. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission 'discovered' N14 billion scam in the police pension office. How corrupt is this police force?
Police arrest Gani’s widow, son
EFCC uncovers N14bn scam in police pension office
Reject Unfair 88% Electricity Tariff (2)
Dino Melaye
Civil Society Groups held a peaceful protest in Abuja against 88% proposed increase in electricity tariff last Thursday. Former House of Representatives member Dino Melaye was at the rally which was staged in front of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria Plc.
The inscriptions on some of the placards carried by the protesters read: “Say No to NERC exponential rise in cost; "We will not relocate to Chad and Ghana because of GEJ", “Power F9, Electricity F9, Good Governance F9, Energy F9, Corruption A1”, We no get light but you dey increase money” and "New Expensive Redundant Commission (NERC)", among others.
Melaye described the 88 per cent planned increase in electricity tariff as “unreasonable, senseless, unacceptable, and wicked.”
—The Nation
Civil Society Protest Proposed Hike in Electricity Tariff
Electricity tariff: Civil society groups protest 88% increase
