This Has To Stop...

…As Fawehinmi’s widow mobilises

From Ayodele Samuel, Lagos

They all sound united in their resolve to send President Goodluck Jonathan parking if his decision to remove petroleum subsidy is not reversed.
Civil society across the nation at various forum during the weekend in Lagos, said they are warming up to embark on a struggle to send President Jonathan parking.
The protests is expected to kick off on the 31st of December, with a processional march rally of widows, young mothers, students, the poor masses to be led by wife of the late legal icon, Gani Fawehinmi, Mrs. Ganiat Bukola Fawehinmi.
The protest is schedule to start at 10am from the grounds of Archbishop Vinning Memorial Anglican Church, GRA Ikeja, Lagos, through Alausa Ikeja to the “Gani Fawehinmi Gardens”.
Also the Joint Action Front (JAF), has declared January 3, 2012 as kick-off of its mass actions against hike in fuel prices by boycotting and shutting all filling stations that sell fuel above the current prices - petrol N65, kerosene N50, diesel N70.
As the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) said the battle will ensure that Nigerians no longer remain a mere allocation under the dictates of a few neo-colonial powers.
CDHR National Chairman Sunny Enenuvwedia said the link between the cost of fuel and increases in the cost of living, in particular the cost of food and consumables, is one that has since been established by IMF recent report which indicates that high fuel costs are instrumental to rising food prices and other necessities.
Also, The Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) Executive Director Ibuchukwu Ohabuenyi Ezike who described the proposed removal of subsidy on petroleum products as “wicked” said that “democracy releases the total energy of all citizens for development. Restraining, curtailing, suppressing and oppressing people with associated authoritarianism, which the present Nigeria government is turning into, breeds nothing but violence.”
CLO however urged President Jonathan to deal with the issue of corruption and the cabal in the oil and gas sector as this is the right way to resolve the man-made crisis ravaging the country