The advocacy group said any citizen who fails to speak out and eventually dies in pain, hardship and anguish as a result of the government’s failures, will go to hell. “Nigerians have been called upon to protest against the hardship in the country. Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA warned that any Nigerian who refuses to protest will go to hell.

ads According to the human rights advocacy group, any citizen who fails to speak out and eventually dies in pain, hardship and anguish as a result of the government’s failures, will go to hell. Addressing a press conference in Abuja on Monday, the National Coordinator of HURIWA, Emmanuel Onwubiko, berated the security agencies, especially the Department of State Services, DSS, for always scaring Nigerians away from protesting, which is their constitutional rights.

ads He pointed out that it was not a crime for the people to demonstrate against the [high] cost of living and the lingering scarcity of fuel but a crime for the security services to stop Nigerians from protesting in peaceful manners. “Peaceful assembling is permissible under the constitution of this country. If you cannot protest in a democratic government then that democracy is dead,” the group said.