Human rights activists under the aegis of the United Action for Democracy (UAD) have kept their promise to protest today in Lagos against the hardship which the policies of the Muhammadu Buhari administration have inflicted on Nigerians.
“We are fully ready. We are fully mobilised and moving towards Yaba from different directions,” UAD National Convener, Gabriel Ojuma Esq., was heard saying this morning.
He said that the protesters would take off from the Lagos Headquarters of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), in Yaba, from where they would march through Ikorodu Road down to the Gani Fawehinmi Freedom Park in Ojota, where the anti-fuel price increase rally was held around this time five years ago.
“At the Gani Freedom Park in Ojota, there will be speeches by veterans of the struggle. We are going to pass a strong message to President Buhari that his austerity policy is not acceptable to Nigerians,” Barrister Ojuma said.
He named Comrade Issa Aremu and Barrister Ebun-olu Adegboruwa as some of those expected to address the rally.