The chairman of the newly constituted governing board of the Save Democracy Group (SDG) Africa, Senator Jonathan Zwingina, has described Nigeria’s democracy as endangered.
Zwingina said the country’s state of affairs is further injured by poverty, economic hardship and unemployment, saying these are not good for the country.
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Daily Sun reports that the former senator spoke at the inauguration of the SDG in Abuja, adding that the efforts of the country’s founding fathers would be in vain until food is made available, poverty is eradicated, jobs are created, and crime rate reduced.
“Our aim in this organization is to urge and encourage governments at all levels to ensure that the development indices for African countries are elevated positively.
“It is hoped that the most visible indices for poverty such as crime and violence, migration within and outside Africa, military conflicts and consequent death and destruction and the creation of internally displaced category of people are reduced drastically,” he said.
The report said 45 persons were commissioned into the board and these include the former governor of Edo state, Prof Osoretin Osunbor, Ben Obi and Femi Kila, ex-FCT police commissioner, Lawrence Alobi, Tanko Yunusa, Josephine Anenih, Rachel Akpabio and Dr Okwesilieze Nwodo.
Senator Zwingina further decried the treatment meted to immigrants in Libya.
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He described such as the worst form of dehumanization.
“All Africans who love democracy must find this repugnant and totally disgraceful. We recognize that none of the government has effective control over the entire territory of Libya,” he said.
NAIJ.com recently reported that no fewer than 4,000 Nigerian refugees returned home from Niger Republic in the past one month, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA).
OCHA said in its North-East Humanitarian Situation Report that the returnees were registered in various locations in Borno state for the month of October.
The fact sheet showed that 1,470 returnees were registered at Gwoza; 498 Kukawa, 374 Ngala and 250 persons recorded at Dikwa.
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Source: Naija.ng