#FreeNnamdiKanuProtest: Coalition of Civil Societies sues for calm

…Urges Nigerians to Shun Anti-Democratic Acts

By Olasunkanmi Akoni

A conjugation of civilian nine organizations, self-determination, and nationalist involvement groups nether the banner of the Coalition for Good Governance (CGG) has called for calm implicit the ongoing protests demanding the merchandise of Nnamdi Kanu, person of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

The conjugation condemned what it described arsenic “irresponsible, inciting, and condemnable attempts by hopeless and failed politicians and subversive elements” to politicize Kanu’s ongoing judicial trial, calling specified actions “inhuman and satanic.”

The protest, tagged #FreeNnamdiKanuProtest, was organized by quality rights activistic Omoyele Sowore and was disrupted by information operatives connected Monday successful Abuja. The Nigeria Police Force, which had earlier warned against immoderate protestation adjacent the Presidential Villa, dispersed the protesters who had planned to march to Aso Rock to request Kanu’s release.

Security personnel, including constabulary and subject officers, were deployed to the protestation grounds arsenic aboriginal arsenic 7 a.m. A viral video aboriginal showed Sowore and different protesters fleeing the country arsenic constabulary fired teardrop gas.

In a associated connection signed by Comrade Nelson Ekujumi and different leaders, the conjugation urged Nigerians to “be wary of hopeless and disgruntled politicians and subversive elements who, aft being rejected astatine the polls, present parade themselves arsenic state fighters against decency, civility, and the regularisation of law.”

“It is an indisputable information that Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, the person of the violent radical IPOB, is successful tribunal connected coercion charges. The tribunal has ordered him to unfastened his defence successful the involvement of just proceeding and justness aft the prosecution closed its case,” the connection read.

The radical emphasized that existent patriots should taxable to the instrumentality alternatively than incite unrest oregon undermine nationalist stability.

“If these anti-democratic elements are not agents of destabilization, the astir due happening is to let the instrumentality to instrumentality its afloat people alternatively than attempting to origin a breakdown of instrumentality and order. Such acts volition beryllium resisted wrong the ambit of the law,” it stated.

The conjugation noted that contempt the unit and nonaccomplishment of guiltless lives linked to IPOB’s activities successful the South East, the Nigerian authorities has continued to taxable Kanu’s lawsuit to the regularisation of instrumentality and owed process, successful enactment with planetary champion practices.

It commended the authorities for “upholding the principles of justice, civility, and the regularisation of law” successful handling the case, and urged authorities not to bow to “blackmail oregon campaigns of calumny aimed astatine discontinuing the trial.”

“Doing truthful would beryllium a sedate injustice and a disservice to the memories of guiltless Nigerians, including civilians and information personnel, who person paid the ultimate terms successful the hands of the IPOB/ESN violent organization,” the connection added.

The CGG urged Nigerians to steer wide of what it described arsenic a “mischievous and fraudulent protest”, informing that specified gatherings could beryllium exploited by governmental opportunists to destabilize the country.

“While we respect the law close to peaceful protest, we volition not ticker and let agents of destabilization mislead the people. Nigerians indispensable stay calm, alert, and committed to ideology and the regularisation of law, alternatively than becoming pawns successful the crippled of failed politicians and anti-democratic forces,” the radical concluded.

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