The National Body of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, CDHR, on Saturday warned that Nigeria will harvest the implications of not addressing the issue of restructuring.
CDHR National Chairman, Mr. Malachy Ugwumma Esq handed down the warning at the ongoing Leadership Conference, organized by the Delta State Chapter of the CDHR in Udu Local Government Area of Delta State.
“If we don’t deal with it now, we will harvest the implications of not addressing it,” he cautioned.
Ugwumma stated that the over concentration of powers at the centre was not in consonance with federalism all over the world.
“Until you deconstruct and reduce the powers at the centre and allow the federating units to have and muster enough momentum and introduce that healthy competition as to respond t o the immediate concerns of their locality, until you do that, you are not talking about federalism”, he added.
Former National Chairman of the CDHR, Prof. Lucky Akaruese in a chat with DAILY POST also stated that those opposed to restructuring of the country were only making violent change inevitable.
The University don noted that the minimum demand of “restructuring” was to fix the myriads of problems in the country, stressing however that, self-determination was the maximum for same.
Prof. Akaruese explained the needs for restructuring especially for the component parts of the country to have freedom to their destinies, to determine and advance themselves, to compete favourably and become part of human civilization.
“Restructuring is the minimum demand otherwise the maximum demand is self-determination of all the different ethnic groups to be part of the federation”, he said.
Akaruese christened the present situation of the country as “very bad”, stressing that, “they’re using generator behind you here.
“As a member of the human rights community, which means that I subscribed to the universal declaration of Human Rights and the African Charter of Hunan & Peoples Rights, I can go beyond restructuring and talk of the principles of self-determination. The minimum demand is just restructuring.”
Former Special Adviser on Project Monitoring to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Prof. Julius Ihonvbere also bared his mind on the matter saying, “it is only restructuring that can position the nation on the path of peace, growth and development.”
Delta State Commissioner of Police, CP Zanna Mihammed Ibrahim who was represented by Divisional Police Officer “B” Division in Warri, CSP Anieteh Eyoh hailed the good works of the CDHR for defending the rights of the less privileged in society.
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