…demands immediate release
By Ime Silas
Barr Inibehe Effiong, a Lagos-based human rights lawyer and activist has asked President Bola Tinubu of Nigeria to address what he termed government’s failures and ravaging hunger in the country, rather than using arbitrary force against conscientious voices.
The fierce legal luminary who was reacting via a post on his verified Social Media handles, to the arrest of the Labour leader by the operatives of the State Security Service (SSS), opined that the administration had destroyed whatever was left as Nigeria’s Democracy.
Inibehe said “The arrest of Comrade Joe Ajaero, the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja on his way to London, where he’s billed to attend a trade union meeting by the State Security Service (SSS) is a continuation of the sinister efforts aimed at enthroning a climate of fear in the country.
It is obvious that this regime is paranoid and is resorting to tyranny to cover its palpable and monumental failures. The arrest of Ajaero is condemnable and he should be released forthwith.
It is shameful that the pretentious and deceitful progressives are now destroying whatever is left of Nigeria’s democracy. It is now clear that this regime is determined to use arbitrary force to silence conscientious voices”.
Calling for sanctions from international community against the Nigerian government, the activist further averred that: “President Tinubu’s regime has made nonsense of the offence of treason. Nigerians are being arrested and prosecuted on trumped-up treason charges for protesting.
It is important for the international community to impose severe sanctions on agents of democratic destabilization in Nigeria.
Rather than address the government’s failures, and the ravaging hunger in the country, this incompetent regime has resorted to pettiness and oppression”.