Nationwide Protest Against Hunger and Bad Governance in Nigeria: "Anybody against this call for protest is an enemy of the people..." AWC.

Under the auspices of the All Workers Convergence (AWC), Nigerian laborers have proclaimed that anyone opposing the country's planned demonstration against hunger is an enemy of the people. Comrade Andrew Emelieze, the National Coordinator of AWC, issued a statement announcing this.

August 1st is the scheduled start date of a nationwide demonstration. A few people and organizations have been protesting the scheduled demonstration. In response, the AWC stated that protesting against poor leadership, hunger, and insecurity is a right that the people have. Anyone who is kicking against the scheduled protest, according to the workers' association, is an enemy of the people.

The group claims that given the difficulties Nigerians are now facing, the demonstration was made necessary. It stated that the demonstration is a revolution against deprivation and hunger.

The statement reads:

“We have been calling for protest and we shall continue to call for protest until the system works for the public good. We are in full support of calls by Nigerians for massive protest in order to end hunger, hardship, and bad governance in Nigeria.

In a situation like ours in Nigeria, protest becomes a collective duty. It is, however, antisocial not to participate in protest.

Our people have lost hope in the system. All our able-bodied citizens are either leaving or planning to leave the country. Our people are being daily strangled by bad governance. Our government keeps telling us the same old story.

While the mass majority of our people pass through hardship, our rulers and a very few are immersed in unimaginable wealth and wastage of national resources.

We will not sit down and continue to see things get worse by the day. Our leaders have been making a mockery of governance and certainly we cannot continue like this.

Governance under Tinubu has brought untold hardship to our people. Everything is now upside down. It appears governance under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has collapsed.

We, the Nigerian workers, support the call for a national protest against hunger and bad governance. Protest everywhere is a fundamental human right. Protest everywhere is lawful. Protest is not a crime. Protest is a duty of all citizens. We shall protest, no going back. We salute the courage of our people as we all continue to mobilize for actions towards the day.

This protest is a revolt against hunger and a rebellion against hardship. Our people are only trying to resist deprivation. This is a revolution towards the genuine transformation of Nigeria.

Our people have suffered enough. Our people have made up their minds to arrest the situation. We are going ahead with the planned protest.

Anybody against this call for protest is an enemy of the people. It is time to emancipate Nigeria from corruption, bad governance, and exploitation. We call for synergy among all the organizers of this protest. We shall overcome. No retreat, no surrender.”