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From Femi Folaranmi, Yenagoa
The Civil Liberty Organisation (CLO), Bayelsa State chapter, has decried human rights violations by security agencies in the state.
The group, in a communique after its meeting, said it was alarmed at the spate of human rights violations and abuses and observed, with dismay, that the issue of extrajudicial killings in the state is resurfacing reminiscence of the ugly days of Operation Famou – Tamgbe, which the CLO resisted some years back.
In the communique signed by its Acting Chairman, Joshua Amangala, Secretary, Timi Igoli, and the Chairman, Communique Drafting Committee, Barr. Ebinyu Aderigha, the CLO said it will not sit back and watch serial abuses of the rights of the people. It vowed to resort to all possible legitimate actions to ensure that justice is served in the interest of humanity.
The group further called on the state government “to prioritise the improvement of educational facilities, science-oriented manpower development, health care services, pipe-borne water, and electrification of our communities to make the life of rural dwellers meaningful across the state” in its second-term mandate.
It called on governments at all levels to initiate policies and programs that are homegrown and have human faces, to lift Nigerians out of the present excruciating economic condition.
On the re-introduction of the old National Anthem, which was part of the resolutions of the 2014 National Confab, the CLO said it was of the firm view that the effective and religious implementation of all the resolutions in the 2014 Confab report would go a long way in resolving the numerous socio-economic and constitutional challenges plaguing the Nigerian federation and not the replacement of the over four decades familiar national anthem with the collapsed colonial era imposed Nigerian national anthem.
It also bemoaned the worrying state of insecurity, worsening socio-economic conditions, the collapse of the cohesive social fabric, and the increase in ethnic tensions across the Nigerian State. While urging governments at all levels to be more alive to the constitutional responsibilities, it strongly recommended that the time was ripe for the reconfiguration of the Nigerian federation and implementation of all the recommendations of the constitutional conferences.
