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Headline : Stop Criminalising Protests, NRHC Urges Federal Gov’t

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The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has urged the federal government and the law enforcement agencies to see protests as expression of fundamental human rights, hence it should stop criminalising it.

Executive Secretary of NHRC, Tony Ojukwu, who made the call at the weekend during the commission’s dashboard presentation report for the months of July and August, 2024, in Abuja, also called on all the tiers of government to prepare for next month’s planned national-wide protest and stop working to criminalise those organising the protest.

The NHRC boss stressed that the government has been given enough notice by the organisers and insisted that it was the duty of the law enforcement agencies to ensure that strategies were put in place to prevent hoodlums from hijacking and giving a criminalised impression to the exercise.

He condemned the deliberate use of force and disregard for the rights to peaceful protest and assembly, freedom of expression and other associated rights exhibited by law enforcement agencies during the recent #EndBadGovernance protest held across the country last month.

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