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‘Injustice is responsible for armed struggle’
By
Psaro Yornamue
Senior Correspondent,
Port
Harcourt
The resort to armed struggle by the Asari Dokubo-led Niger
Delta People’s Volunteer Force (NDPVF), the clamour for the resuscitation
of the defunct Biafra by the Movement for Actualisation of the Sovereign State
of Biafra (MASSOB) and other forms of agitations in the country are as a result
of the continued injustice and oppression meted out to the peoples from these
regions.
The remark was made by the President of the Human Rights,
Justice and Peace Foundation, Comrade Chidi Nwosu, in an interview with Daily Independent
in Port Harcourt.
The activist added that Obasanjo’s administration should be held responsible for the disunity in the country, adding
that “it is as a result of the exclusion of the opposition from key
sectors of the economy resulting from the government’s perception that
the opposition
is anti-government and a taboo by the ruling party at all
levels of government that fans the
embers of disunity in the
country”.
He added that failure of the government to deliver the
dividends of democracy to the people was because electoral processes were
manipulated to earn their victory, and as a result, had no pact with the people
on good governance.
Nwosu regretted
that the 1999 Constitution was not made by the Nigerian people as claimed
by the military, pointing out that
the independence of the judiciary is compromised where the Judiciary depends on the
Executive for funding.
“The Obasanjo administration has made the minorities
to become the hewers of wood and
drawers of water in Nigeria while the Hausa, Fulani and until recently, the
Yoruba have become the allocators of values and resources for the country,” he lamented,
pointing out that the mass illiteracy, ignorance and poverty have constituted
serious impediment to hold the government accountable to the people.
“An
illiterate, ignorant and hungry man cannot insist on the rule of law, as
vividly shown by the recently
aborted strike in the country’’ he said, alleging that most of the
High Court judges are agents of the state and, therefore,
cannot ensure justice for
the victims of electoral robbery
at the election petition
tribunals.
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