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Protest Organizers List 10-Point Demand

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July 31, 2024

Organizers of the #EndBadGovernance protest scheduled to kick off from August 1 to 10, across the nation, have listed a 10-point demand to the Federal Government.

A protest demand document seen by GWG.ng on Wednesday, urged the government to address hunger in the land, address rising cost of living, combat insecurity, reduce waste in the Executive and the National Assembly, and release all currently-imprisoned #EndSARS protesters among other demands.

Below are the 10 demands:

1.HUNGER

Reduce the cost of food immediately, with solutions like food importation, subsidised credits, and intervene in logistics and storage challenges.

2. COST OF LIVING

Address the rising cost of living: Reduce pump price of fuel to N195/ltr to reflect current economic challenges; Reduce electricity tariffs, and import taxes.

3. INSECURITY

Curb insecurity across the country: stop diverting security resources (money & people) and immediately prosecute known instigators & criminals. Resettle internally displaced persons (IDPs) immediately.

4. GOVERNMENT WASTE / COST OF GOVERNANCE/ BLOATED NASS PERMANENTLY

Reduce by 50% the running costs of the executive and National Assembly and fully implement the Oronsaye Report to scrap agencies and reduce the size of government. Scrap hardship, entertainment, and all other NASS allowances and immediately remove all 7,447 projects worth N2.24 trillion inserted by the National Assembly in the 2024 federal budget.

5. #EndSARS

Release ALL #EndSARS protesters; obey ECOWAS judgement; make public the #EndSARS Judicial Panel Reports and implement recommendations, including payment of compensations.

6. PROTECT FARMS AND FARMERS

Provide security to farmers across the country, restore stolen lands, subsidise farm inputs – seeds, fertilisers, insecticides and ban destructive GMOs.

7. HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT

Declare a state of emergency on education and increase budgetary allocation to education and healthcare by 20% and revert to the old National Anthem. 5 Demands by October 1°t.

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8. ELECTORAL REFORM

Implement the Justice Uwais report on Electoral Reform and include mandatory electronic balloting and transmission to

IREV, ending with an executive Electoral Bill to the National Assembly by October 1.

The new Electoral Act must be signed by December 2024.

9. ESTABLISH A LIVING WAGE

Go back to the negotiating table for an implementation plan to establish an unemployment/living wage. Enforce implementation across board. Create immediate employment for youths and clear ALL backlog of pensions.

10. CONSTITUTIONAL AND JUDICIAL REFORMS

Sponsor Executive Bill to the National Assembly to amend the Constitution to allow for referendums. Nigerians want to vote on a new constitution! The process of appointment and discipline of judges should be transparent.

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