By Joseph Erunke

ABUJA- THE Department of State Service, DSS, has invited the National President of Nigeria Youth Union, NYU, Comrade Chinonso Obasi,for questioning over the union’s suspended rally at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.

The protest was planned by the organisation to disrupt official activities at the airport.

Obasi was summoned alongside other youth leaders involved in the planned act.

It was gathered that the planned action was necessitated by inability of relevant authorities, particularly the leadership of Nigerian Governors’ Forum,NGF,and Association of Local Government of Nigeria,ALGON,to their demand for a better and efficient PHCs in Nigeria.

Leader of the group and National President of NYU, Chinonso Obasi, confirmed told newsmen, Wednesday, that he was invited by the DSS, adding he had concluded arrangements to be at DSS headquarters on Wednesday morning in honor the invitation.

“Our initial plan was to shut down the airport this morning (Wednesday) but that has been put on hold because of the DSS invitation. The meeting with DSS has been scheduled for this morning. Our next line of action will be communicated after our meeting with the DSS.

“We won’t relent until we see things change. Over 1,000 comrades are already in Abuja to participate in the planned which will help us register their discontent with the situation of public healthcare facilities in Nigeria, and we are determined to continue until we effect the needed changes so that Nigerians, mostly poor people at the rural areas can get basic health care services at the PHCs,”he said.

He recalled that in February, hundreds of the youths shut down the headquarters of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) for few hours to protest poor state Nigeria’s health care system particularly the PHCs.

The Youths took similar action and request to the headquarters of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON) few weeks after, to also register their discontent with the deplorable state of PHCs in Nigeria.

Obasi said the decision to stage the peaceful protest was to drive home their message to the governors and local government Chairmen on the need to leverage on the COVID-19 pandemic to revive the PHCs which would be more beneficial to rural communities.

He said: “We have privileged information from federal ministry of health that the decision to revive the PHCs is on the governor and local government administration because the health is on the concurrent list.

“But we are deeply pained and grossly disenchanted that some State Governors are totally dictating what happens at the local government level with particular emphasis on directly controlling and pocketing a great chunk of local government funds.”

Recall that some youth groups, comprising of Nigeria Youth Union (NYU), National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS), National Association of Colleges of Education Students (NACES), Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG), Northern Youths Initaitive for Peace and Good Governance, have planned to disrupt peaceful activities at the airport on Wednesday to raise global awareness on the deplorable state of Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) in Nigeria but the DSS invitation has distorted the plan.

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Every just dey para. Reason we can not drop off at the airports again.

since northern group are involve in the protest, the DSS will surely invite una for talks and common ground but say them no follow, them go come pick each of una one by one....the next will be court action!

stupid country!

let him go and protest in Biafra . they need it more

Give us freedom of speech Mr President.

Please, check my signature

DSS always invites. What's the essence of the invitation sef?

Noted

Sad that I've been desensitized to protests now. They're happening everywhere and everytime in Nigeria now, and some of them aren't even genuine.

What's PHC? Public health care?

When are they going to invite Shekarau? Why are they doing the job of police officers?

What concerns PHC and Airports...definitely I smell sinister ulterior motives here.

na 90% military regime we dey so, I swear...

triple996:
let him go and protest in Biafra . they need it more

Why re u spamming threads wit Biafra, Ipob nd ESN?

Numero Uno will give u a lengthy ban soon for constituting a nuisance on nairaland.

He will either come out bruised or richer ..one of my guys was arrested like this and since then he been balling oo

Hi

Pro what ?.

Ok

Dss invitation might be a strategy to arrest him and others.

Has the Constitution been amended that i don't know anymore?

I use to think there was freedom of speech, gathering and protest provided in the Constitution.

One reason Twitter had to set up it's headquarter in Ghana instead of Nigeria.

No more respect for human rights, always trying to silent the people who seeks to come out to cry for injustice.

One greatest crime on earth is been a Nigerian.
Indeed There was a country.

Primary Health Care and Airport?

It doesn't add up.

Everybody wan use activisim cash out like Sowore. I never knew Sowore was still depending on grant money until him chop him girlfriend own and she exposed him.

Ndi ara!!

Ok

That's why Twitter wont come to Nigeria

freedom of protest and right to free speech is fundamental.

Nigeria gags free speech and right to gather. Twitter is an advocate for democracy, we can't continue like this and expect businesses to come in

zealousayo:
DSS always invites. What's the essence of the invitation sef?

They are yet to invite sheik gumi

this guy is not wise. you are an Igbo man and you are leading a protest to shut down an airport in Abuja. Don't you know that it will be viewed as a biafran trying to make buhari(nothern) government ungovernable? it is very important that we are wise in our dealings.
Take the end sars protest for example. It later turned to join(igbos) trying to destroy Lagos. Nigeria at it's present condition is not worth dying for

DSS, please shoot at sight that stupid Osu nonso in the mouth

PHPdeveloper200:
this guy is not wise. you are an Igbo man and you are leading a protest to shut down an airport in Abuja. Don't you know that it will be viewed as a biafran trying to make buhari(nothern) government ungovernable? it is very important that we are wise in our dealings.
Take the end sars protest for example. It later turned to join(igbos) trying to destroy Lagos. Nigeria at it's present condition is not worth dying for

The nonso is a dss operative