Youths and facilitators under the
auspices of the Global Coalition for Security and Democracy in Nigeria on
Monday, August 4, defied threats of security agencies to hold the ‘Revolution
Now’ protest in four states of the country and Abuja
The protesters said their demands
which are in three phases, contains issues that must be addressed.
The three phases are as follows:
* First phase: End anti-people
economic policies
* Second phase: End special
privileges for the ruling class
* Third phase: Return political
power and national wealth to the working people
First phase – End Anti-People
Economic Policies:
* Return of fuel prices and
electricity tariffs to their levels in 1999.
* End to estimated and inflated
billing by the electricity distribution companies
* No devaluation of the Naira.
* End to the insecurity and
constant bloodletting in the country
* Abolition of tuition fees in
all public universities and secondary schools.
* Immediate payment of the
N30,000 minimum wage
* The immediate release of all
political prisoners, including Shi’ite leader Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife
* The immediate payment of all
outstanding salaries of workers and pensions of retirees.
Second phase – End Special
Privileges for the Ruling Class:
* All public officials must be
banned from educating their children in private schools in Nigeria or in
schools in foreign countries.
* These officials must be banned
also from obtaining healthcare in private hospitals in Nigeria or in hospitals
in foreign countries.
* An immediate end to the use of
police or military personnel as private security guards for these officials.
* Except for the president and
governors, these officials and their immediate family must not live in
class-exclusive estates
Third phase – Return Political
Power and National Wealth to the Working People:
* The complete and uncompensated
repossession by the working people of all national resources stolen by the
ruling class
* The complete and uncompensated
seizure by the working people of all private wealth accumulated by public
officials during and after their tenure of service.
* The complete socialisation of
all land in the country and declaration of access to land as a basic right.
* To break the stranglehold of
the ruling class on political power by banning from politics all who have
stolen the people’s money and property since 1960.
* To reduce the cost of
governance by abolishing the Senate, thus establishing a uni-cameral
legislature with only the House of Representatives.
* Abolishing the death penalty
except for the embezzling or privatisation of the public wealth.
* Producing a new constitution
for Nigeria by a democratic and people-led process involving open discussion,
debate, and determination of proposals and suggestions by the working people.
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