Organizers of the planned nationwide protest, scheduled for August 1 to August 10, have unveiled their key demands from President Bola Tinubus government.
Despite efforts by the government to quell the move, the youths are insisting on embarking on the protest in the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja.

Former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, Omoyele Sowore, who is one of the organizers of the movement, forwarded the demands to our correspondent on Wednesday.
The looming protest titled, “Days of Rage”, “EndBadGovernance” is aimed at drawing the attention of the Federal Government to the economic situation of the country.
The 15 point demands are as follows:

1. Allow for diaspora voting during general elections

2. Scrap the 1999 constitution and replace it with a people-made Constitution for the Federal Republic of Nigeria through a sovereign National Conference followed by a National Referendum.

3. Toss the Senate arm of the Nigerian legislative system and Keep the House of Representatives and make lawmaking a part-time endeavour.

4. Pay Nigerian workers a minimum wage of nothing less than N250,000 monthly.

5. Invest heavily in education and give Nigerian students grants not loans. Aggressively pursue free and compulsory education for children across Nigeria.

6. Release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu unconditionally and demilitarize the South East. All ENDSARS and political detainees must also be released and compensated.

7. Rationalize public owned enterprises sold to government officials and cronies.

8. Reinstate a corruption-free subsidy regime to reduce hunger, starvation and multidimensional poverty.

9. Probe past and present Nigerian leaders, who have looted the treasury, recover their loot and deposit it in a special account to fund education, healthcare and infrastructure.

10. Restructuring of Nigeria to accommodate Nigerias diversity, resources control, decentralization and regional development.

11. End banditry, terrorism and violent crimes. Reform security agencies to stop continuous human rights violations.

12. Establishment of a special energy immediately to drive massive corruption-free power sector development.

13. Immediate reconstitution of the electoral body, INEC to remove corrupt individuals and partisan hacks appointed to manipulate elections.

14. Massive investment in public works and industrialization will help employ Nigerias teaming youths.

15. Massive shake-ups in the Nigerian judiciary to remove cabals of corrupt generations of judges and judicial officers that continue denying citizens access to real justice.

Culled from NigeriaNeye

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