MBU BAN ON PROTEST, A VIOLATION OF OUR CONSTITUTION -CDRP

A leading Human Rights organisation in Nigeria, the Committee for Democracy and Rights of the People [CDRP] has condemned the action of the Commissioner of Police in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Joseph Mbu banning all protests over kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls in Abuja

Comrade Saka Waheed

In a statement signed by the acting National Coordinator of the group, Comrade Saka Waheed, the group said the ban is unwarranted, condemnable, unconstitutional and antithetical to all democratic norms.

According to Comrade Saka;  Section 40 of 1999 constitution as amended state that ” Every person shall be entitled to assemble freely and associate with other persons, and in particular he may form or belong to any political party, trade union or any other association for the protection of his interests” though we are not surprise by Mbu riot act, he is a commissioner of controversy, he has done it in Anambra state before he was summarily posted to FCT, but he must learn that in a democracy, the rights of citizen to peacefully assemble can neither be subjected to a police permit nor be taken away by police ban, it is inalienable ,incontestable and Mbu can never be above the constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria.

Nigeria Police has been consciously violating the constitution of the country in the name of security with subtle directive from the presidency, CDRP therefore restate our commitment to fundamental rights of every citizen as guaranteed by the constitution to peacefully assemble and any attempt by any security agency to take us back to jackboot era of military will be resisted.

CDRP therefore restate our commitment to peacefully assemble with the Chiboks family in the quest to bring home their daughters alive.