₦airaland Forum

BarrElChapo:
My sis, even the protest against the coming protest rally wasn’t restricted.

Everything about this country is so wrong.

Very, very wrong!

professorPABX:
1. You are just making empty noise . Fuel subsidy protest of January 2012 took place at Gani Fawehinmi Freedom Park in Ojota and the Peace Park in Ketu. The people that led this protest were the same people that led the 2010 protest that gave power to Jonathan as Acting President.
2. Mind you, blocking roads or forcefully closing marketplace or businesses can be resisted and protest turn to riots. If National Union of Roads Transport Workers or Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria decide they want to work to feed their families, blocking of roads might lead to confrontation.

1. And so?

2. Agberos block the streets of Lagos every day, illegally mind you, and your courts have never once thought to restrict their movements. So?

Orinechi:
Those rights are not absolute. Stop misleading people.

Explain what you mean when you say the rights are not absolute?

Gboom:
∆ You will be one of those that will be crying later when protest unleashing terror and it became a mayhem
I know you are very stubborn online, but it will lead you to nowhere

Bullsheet!

BarrElChapo:
Well anyone can file anything reasonable or unreasonable in court.
The Judiciary is now the tool for politicians seek for nonsense.

Agbero courts of Lagos, na him oo. They've conveniently ignored the many protests of the resident agberos in Lagos against protests. No restrictions on those ones since they are state sponsored. It is instead those who would protest wasn't bad government they would seek to restrict by their agbero style rulings.

Gboom:
∆ But, they have right to prevent anarchy

There is no State of Emergency declared in the country either at the state or national level. So, please dead this "prevent anarchy" bullsheet!

Gboom:
■ Continue to argue blindly and refuse to face reality on ground. Dey pretend as if you don't know the reason why the government is confining the protest

Your government has no right by law to confine a person's freedom. That is contradictory!

Crafteck1:
∆ Hasnt d country been hijacked

What bothers me the most is the arrogant manner in which they make their many claims.

BondRiv:
∆ What section of the constitution provides for the right to peaceful assembly? And you didn't see it mentioned in section 45 (1). You are not a lawyer, hence your comment. You are unable to understand, not to talk of appreciating the significance of the section. There's no need going back and forth with you.
I have told you several times to stop delving into legal issues because you lack the legal training required to comprehend them.

1. It seems to me that you don't even understand what your Constitution says but somehow think it makes sense to argue from that point of ignorance, in arrogance mind you. Interesting... I will leave you to it at this point since I have better things to do with my time.

LegendHero:
∆ So how does the freedom of association in your screenshot relates to assembling to protest?
You mean you can just protest anywhere according to the law? Can I come and protest in your house and bring this screenshot with me?
Read it again, then show me how that jargons negate the right of Lagos government to assign protest ground.

Why do folks like you reason this absurdly in the year 2024?

Yes, you are free to assembly anywhere you choose. Of course, it is against you to break the law -- trespassing on private property without just cause for instance --- when doing so.

The Constitution gives to every individual who is born a Nigerian(or naturalized as one) the right to free thought, speech and assembly.

BondRiv:
∆ If you don't understand the law, consult a lawyer. No right is absolute. There are restrictions contained in S.45 of the CFRN 1999 (as amended). That is what the AGF is relying on.

Not a single one of the restrictions stated in Section 45 gives even the courts right to dictate how people can freely protest. That is why I didn't bother posting from Section 45 upon reviewing it.

Don't just post without reading next time.

LegendHero:
A Lagos High Court has granted an exparte application filed by the State’s Attorney General, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Lawal Pedro seeking to restrict the proposed August 1 nationwide protest, in Lagos to the Gani Fawehinmi Freedom Park in Ojota and the Peace Park in Ketu.
Justice Emmanuel Ogundare granted the order of pre-emptive remedy by way of an interim injunction to restrict the defendants from converging and carrying out the proposed protests in Lagos from Aug 1-10th except in the two approved locations from 8 am to 6 pm.
Listed in the application as defendants are Adamma Ukpabi and Tosin Harsogba (for Active Citizens Group); Comrade Juwon Sanyaolu and Hassan Soweto (for Take it Back Movement); Persons unknown and Commissioner of Police, Lagos State.
While moving his application before the court, the Attorney General, argued that as the Chief Law Officer of the State and having been privy to notices by different interests who are for and against the nationwide protest, there is a need to protect the critical infrastructures of the state and prevent an irreparable loss of lives and property as witnessed during the EndSARS protest in 2020.

The court has no such power since the supreme Law of the Land states as follows...

naptu2:
Nigeria Police Force @PoliceNG...

No link to the video from the conference? I don't know of a Take It Back Movement though being involved in this upcoming protest.

press9jatv:
yes. Wickedness doesn’t know if it’s pdp or APC or Lp

Ole ni gbogbo won!

tamdun:
■ That's northern govs problem

huh?

press9jatv:
■ Pdp government is still much fair at the central government than the clueless APC government at the central. But in the states, some of these set of governors are wicked and clueless in managing their state’s economy

There is nothing fair about having a thief or thieves in government.

They are all the same. PDP governors are just as wicked and clueless as other governors.

Bobloco:
The organisers of the planned #EndBadGovernance nationwide protest scheduled for August 1, on Tuesday rejected the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Kayode Egbetokun’s proposal for a confined protests.
Egbetokun had suggested confined protests in identified locations and advised against street rallies during a meeting with the organisers.
According to the IGP: “It is not advisable to go on street processions because as you are planning peaceful protests, some are planning violence.”

These nincompoops have yet to realize that the fact that the protest could be hijacked by unscrupulous elements is all the more reason why people need to go out to protest the incompetence and ineptitude of the government in arresting the security situation in the country.

How can a whole IGP of Police come out bold-faced to tell people not to protest for fear that criminal elements could take advance of the opportunity? Isn't that clear proof that you, as an IGP, have failed in your responsibilities? Why is the Police trying to push what is his responsibility on the people looking to freely exercise their right to protest?

FuglyGurl:
UST IN : Women, Children are the Elderly have taken to the street of Brono the capital of maiduguri to protest against Hunger, Nigerians how did it come to this ?
#EndBadGovernanceProtest
#EndBadGovernanceInNigeria Northerners Igbos Nigerian Police Seyi Law Chidinma

Nigerian police and their show of force are nowhere to be seen there. Na only for south dem dey do show-of-force.

press9jatv:
Pdp government is still much fair at the central government than the clueless APC government at the central. But in the states, some of these set of governors are wicked and clueless in managing their state’s economy

Are states governed today by PDP Governors any better than the states governed by Governors from other political parties? Is there significantly more progress recorded by the people in those situations?

Again, a thief is a thief... no matter how much you try to whitewash it, you can never change that fact.

God1000:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/07/protest-soldiers-police-dss-others-in-joint-show-of-force-in-ibadan/

Why dem no go do this kain thing for North, naw? Na only for south dem dey organize this their show of force, abi?

press9jatv:
economy is still much better and fair in the 16 years of Pdp unlike APC, our naira is useless in APC government. Very pathetic

A thief is still a thief! There is nothing better about one or the other.

If you had given PDP any more time, they too would have resorted to stealing the entire bank after realizing the people they are serving are indeed Zombies.

press9jatv:
Throughout the 16 years rule of PDP, plastic Pepsi bottle was never up to N100. But in less than 10 years of APC, plastic Pepsi is now N400+.
We are making PROGRESS in deed ☹️😕🇳🇬.
Abeg where can Nigeria people purchase the bag of rice @40k. Tinubu administration don lie on this one

PDP are thieves too much like APC. The only difference is that while PDP stole money from the bank, but APC came to make away with the entire bank including it's foundation.

Lumarstone:
During next election, APC shall share Maggi and other cooking condiments to you and you people shall vote for them. It has been the normal procedure. The worst are yet to come. Maybe by the next three years, una go talk truth.
Fools...

At this rate, many of them no go survive until the next election. And don't for one minute think this is only happening in the North.

Fineman2:
...

Hijack government from Tinubu? government na Tinubu Papa property abi wetin?

God1000:
"I'm determined to join the planned protest because our country is being badly managed; that's why I started ahead of time, hoping to ‘ginger’ (encourage) those who may have been intimidated by the authorities,” Yusuf said while brandishing a placard.
"They think they can scare us into silence, but they're making a big mistake. If they want to fire live bullets at protesters let them go ahead because our current condition is not really better than those of dead people.”
The placard, bearing the heading ‘My Demands’, lists the following demands: national security, restoration of fuel subsidy, electricity subsidy, improved naira value, affordable education and accessible healthcare.
The #EndBadGovernance protest is scheduled for August 1-10 and it is aimed at drawing the government’s attention to the economic crisis, hardship, worsening hunger and poverty, and other issues linked to bad governance in the country.

😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

Vision101:
■ We don't give out only food. We give money and other items. Why not try and attend any of our service and be a witness.
Infact we are packing a wonderful second service targeting the youths and young adults (YAYA). There will be refreshment after every service. People don't know that we have a lot of CSR activities. I'm still expecting you.

You take there money at least once every week but you give out food and money only once every four months. Does that in any way represent a reasonable return on their investment? I no blame you at all. I blame the gullible individuals who suffer and smile with their plate of rice wey the pastor dey dash them every four months.

Hello church members, one of the people at your churches claims that you are regularly given food at least once a month at your particular parish. I would appreciate it if some of you could back this claim up with videos or pictures(note-plural since I expect we would monitor this claim over a couple of months).

Vision101:
Don't say what you don't know. We give gifts mostly food items in my parish every first Sunday of every quarter. The service is called super Sunday.

Thank you!

As for you @Vision101, for you to attempt to compare a quarterly party to a foodbank that gives out food daily to individuals, it seems you are quite disconnected from the reality of things in Nigeria.

Vision101:
■ Hahaha....koboooo. I'm the PIC of Area. The name of the parish is Daystar Parish. Abia Province 2. 70 Aba-Owerri Road, Umungasi. Aba. The next super Sunday will be first Sunday in September. I'll be expecting you. You will be fed very well. You will receive a good take-away package.
Are you satisfied now. Koboooo.

Satisfied? Of course not! Next Is to look for those who are not paid to back up your claim which is that your parish gives out food regularly to individuals.

FuglyGurl:
...

This one no be GenZ protest again oo.

ElSudani:
∆ What has endsars got to do with the fact that you can't afford garri?

You introduced the reference to death and destruction which I linked back to EndSars protest.

It is always a good thing to ensure we have our facts right in all of this.

ElSudani:
∆ They are far more sensible than you. After the destruction and the deaths will it result in lower food prices for you?
The market women who rely on daily sales to sustain their families, will it result in more money in their pockets?

You mean the same destruction and deaths ECOWAS courts recently indicted the Nigerian government both at State and National level of during the EndSars protest, this coming after Nigerian courts has already found the same government culpable of?