National President of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, Dr Osagie Obayuwana, has called on political leaders to make use of the abundant resources in Nigeria for national development.
Obayuwana made this call while speaking at the 2023 Annual General Conference of the CDHR, in Ilorin, Kwara State, on Saturday.
Osagie bemoaned that citizens of the country were now going through unprecedented socio-economic hardships ever known in the history of the country.
He stated that the palliative introduced by the government in the wake of the removal of fuel subsidy was not enough to mitigate the hardship confronting Nigerians.
“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 reached a resolution 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.
The President of the foreign relations think tank, Society of International Relations Awareness, Owei Lakemfa, also 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 noted that in Europe, it is different to fight for human rights unlike in Nigeria or Africa.
