Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre has written to the National Human

Rights Commission to demand the release of some of the arrested

#EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protesters.

A statement signed by its Executive Director, Okechukwu Nwanguma described the

continued arrests of citizens participating in, or associated with the peaceful protest in

Nigeria against economic hardship and widespread suffering in Nigeria under the

President Bola Tinubu’s administration as undemocratic.

The group insisted that it is not an offence when citizens peacefully protest to call the

attention of the government to their plight and the pains of their fellow citizens, adding

that such actions showed a lack of respect for human rights and democratic ideals and

undermined the government’s credibility in promoting and protecting these rights.

According to them, the use of force, intimidation, and arbitrary arrests to suppress

peaceful protesters is unacceptable and against the principles of freedom of expression

and assembly as enshrined in international human rights treaties that Nigeria has

ratified.