…condemns arrest of NLC President
By Chioma Obinagwam
Human rights Lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, has urged the international community to sanction those he refers to as agents of destabilisation of Nigeria’s democracy.
Confiance News gathered from the official X handle of the lawyer.
He also frowned at the arrest of the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero, who was billed for a trade union meeting in London.
He said:“The arrest of Comrade Joe Ajaero, the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja on his way to London, where he’s billed to attend a trade union meeting by the State Security Service (SSS) is a continuation of the sinister efforts aimed at enthroning a climate of fear in the country.
“It is obvious that this regime is paranoid and is resorting to tyranny to cover its palpable and monumental failures. The arrest of Ajaero is condemnable and he should be released forthwith.
“It is shameful that the pretentious and deceitful progressives are now destroying whatever is left of Nigeria’s democracy. It is now clear that this regime is determined to use arbitrary force to silence conscientious voices.
“President Tinubu’s regime has made nonsense of the offence of treason. Nigerians are being arrested and prosecuted on trumped-up treason charges for protesting.
“It is important for the international community to impose severe sanctions on agents of democratic destabilization in Nigeria.“Rather than address the government’s failures, and the ravaging hunger in the country, this incompetent regime has resorted to pettiness and oppression.”
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