The #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protest set for August 1 to 10, is gathering more momentum than ever.
Despite the government’s attempts to discourage the movement, the rising economic challenges has left Nigerians, especially the youth, longing for a mass protest across all 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
Like every other protest, the #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protest is not without demands.
As we speak, a list of 15 demands directed at President Bola Tinubu’s government has been unveiled by the protest organisers.
This non-negotiable demands were shared by the former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) and one of the protest’s organizers, Omoyele Sowore.
The protest, dubbed ‘#DaysOfRage’, ‘#EndBadGovernanceInNigeria,’ aims to highlight the country’s pressing economic issues.
Below is a full list of the demands:
1. Scrab the 1999 constitution and replace it with a people-made Constitution for the Federal Republic of Nigeria through a sovereign National Conference followed by a National Referendum.
2. Toss the Senate arm of the Nigerian legislative system. Keep the House of Representatives and make lawmaking a part-time endeavour.
3. Pay Nigerian workers a minimum wage of nothing less than ₦250,000 monthly.
4. Invest heavily in education and give Nigerian students grants not loans. Aggressively pursue free and compulsory education for children across Nigeria.
5. Release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu unconditionally and demilitarize the South East. All ENDSARS and political detainees must also be released and compensated.
6. Rationalize public owned enterprises sold to government officials and cronies.
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7. Reinstate a corruption-free subsidy regime to reduce hunger, starvation and multidimensional poverty.
8. Probe past and present Nigerian leaders, who have looted the treasury, recover their loot and deposit it in a special account to fund education, healthcare and infrastructure.
9. Restructuring of Nigeria to accommodate Nigeria’s diversity, resources control, decentralization and regional development.
10. End banditry, terrorism and violent crimes. Reform security agencies to stop continuous human rights violations.
11. Establishment of a special energy immediately to drive massive corruption-free power sector development.
12. Immediate reconstitution of the electoral body, INEC to remove corrupt individuals and partisan hacks appointed to manipulate elections.
13. Massive investment in public works and industrialization will help employ Nigeria’s teaming youths.
14. Massive shake-ups in the Nigerian judiciary to remove cabals of corrupt generations of judges and judicial officers that continue denying citizens access to real justice.
15. Diaspora voting.
