National President of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, CDHR, Dr Osagie Obayuwana, has decried the state of the nation and raised an alarm that Nigeria is in deep depression.
Speaking at the 2023 Annual General Conference of the CDHR, in Ilorin, Kwara State, on Saturday, Osagie, lamented that citizens of the country were now going through unprecedented socio-economic hardships ever known in the history of the country.
He declared that the palliative introduced by the government in the wake of the removal of fuel subsidy was not enough to rescue or cushion the hardship Nigerians are now going through.
“Petrol may soon go for N800 per litre, just as the exchange of a dollar is now N1, 200, the hardship is too much and Nigerians cannot accept the current situation.
“We want a new Nigeria where the resources will be used to develop the country for all citizens.
” Nigeria used to have millionaires but now, we have trillionaires” apparently referring to the deep corruption in the country now while the masses are suffering.
He said the CDHR has resolved to defend the rights of Nigerians and that the masses must stand by the human rights body.
” Let us play our roles as citizens of the country, for us to have a Nigeria that will serve the people,” he added.
Also speaking, the President of the foreign relations think tank, Society of International Relations Awareness, SIRA, Owei Lakemfa, said, ‘ ‘in saner climes, comrades fight for human rights to develop the country but in Nigeria, you fight for human rights to lose your life.
He said in Europe, it is different to fight for human rights unlike in Nigeria or Africa.
