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Crowd Protest In Support Of N4b AFLPM House



Women, youth and physically challenged persons yesterday protested in favour of the proposed construction of the N4 billion African First Ladies Peace Mission House in the 2013 appropriation of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

The protesters thronged the No 1 Capital Street Secretariat of the FCTA as early as 8am yesterday, wearing T-shirts and fez caps with the inscription “FCT is working” on them.

Some of them carried placards with several inscriptions including, “Soyinka; educated illiterate, Fashola; consultant governor, Soyinka; Grammar king without sense and Nigerian women support Africa First Ladies Peace Mission.”

LEADERSHIP recalls that the proposal by the FCTA to undertake the building of the AFLPM house at the cost of N4 billion was met with a string of criticisms from many Nigerians, some of whom described the project as uncalled for and a misplaced priority.
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka had in a protest in Lagos, on Valentine’s Day added his voice to the trail of criticisms, saying the proposal was unconstitutional and mind boggling.

Before yesterday’s protest, the FCTA had earlier risen in defence of the proposal, saying the construction of all public buildings in Abuja was its responsibility and the AFLPM house was no exception.

During the protest yesterday, unlike in the past when protesters are barred from coming close to the gates of the FCTA secretariat, the pro AFLPM house protesters were received in the FCTA premises by the minister, Senator Bala Mohammed.

FCT Chairman of the National Council of Women Societies (NCWS), Nancy Bulus who spoke on behalf of the protesters argued that the AFLPM house will apart from enhancing the aesthetics of the city, give Nigeria a place of pride in the comity of nations and provide a platform for women’s voices to be heard in the continent and globally.

“We want that secretariat in this Abuja, in Nigeria as the giant of Africa; this is a unique project that all Nigerian women want. So we want the National Assembly to pass that budget. They should know that women of Nigeria want this secretariat and it has to be built by this administration. It is not an elite project,” she said.

Addressing the protesters, the minister insisted that the AFLPM house is an embassy of the African Union which would enhance the diplomatic relationship between Nigeria and other countries in Africa.

He noted that Decree No. 6 of 1976 that created Abuja also simultaneously created the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), with a duty and responsibility to plan, design, provide the infrastructure and construct public buildings as well as services to the entire 8,000 square kilometers of the FCT, adding that to live up to its international obligation and a diplomatic practice based on reciprocity, “we must not shy away from our responsibility.”

The protesters also presented letters addressed to President Goodluck Jonathan, the Senate President, Senator David Mark and the Speaker of the House of Representative, Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal to the minister, which he promised to deliver on their behalf.

jas_o: This is what you get when people from particular segment of country head the affair of the nation. It is more reason why they've being denied the opportunity because some greedier knows their fellow greediest. Having envisage today event, am afraid this will be the last taste of SS and SE presidency before the nation brake out.

jas_o: This is what you get when people from particular segment of country head the affair of the nation. It is more reason why they've being denied the opportunity because some greedier knows their fellow greediest. Having envisage today event, am afraid this will be the last taste of SS and SE presidency before the nation brake out.

Eziachi:
How on earth do you come to this conclusion of people from a particular segment of the country? All I saw were just black men and women of all sizes and shapes and no stamps on their forehead.
Unless you got a different picture than this one we are all looking at?

take dat: This Rent-A-Crowd business is quite booming that we now have professional crowd renters, and the poverty stricken crowd have no choice but to embrace their conquerors for peanuts.

jas_o: This is what you get when people from particular segment of country head the affair of the nation. It is more reason why they've being denied the opportunity because some greedier knows their fellow greediest. Having envisage today event, am afraid this will be the last taste of SS and SE presidency before the nation brake out.

jas_o:
What i mean is that there is level of curruption to be measure by regions.
If Jona region doesnt belong to this class of curuption, there wont be staging of protest in support of anti people project. This show the worth of the president when it come to curruption, and his family wont say anything because is truely reflecting what they stand for.
hope i open your eyes.

FCT Chairman of the National Council of Women Societies (NCWS), Nancy Bulus who spoke on behalf of the protesters argued that the AFLPM house will apart from enhancing the aesthetics of the city, give Nigeria a place of pride in the comity of nations and provide a platform for women’s voices to be heard in the continent and globally

jas_o: This is what you get when people from particular segment of country head the affair of the nation. It is more reason why they've being denied the opportunity because some greedier knows their fellow greediest. Having envisage today event, am afraid this will be the last taste of SS and SE presidency before the nation brake out.

jas_o: This is what you get when people from particular segment of country head the affair of the nation. It is more reason why they've being denied the opportunity because some greedier knows their fellow greediest. Having envisage today event, am afraid this will be the last taste of SS and SE presidency before the nation brake out.

blacksta: Every evil , you will surely find in Nigeria

jas_o:
What i mean is that there is level of curruption to be measure by regions.
If Jona region doesnt belong to this class of curuption, there wont be staging of protest in support of anti people project. This show the worth of the president when it come to curruption, and his family wont say anything because is truely reflecting what they stand for.
hope i open your eyes.

tpia@:



they dont look poverty stricken though.