Activist Gives Hints As Nigeria Celebrates 25 Year Democracy Anniversary

• On minimum wage, he enunciated that it’s worse than democracy when the country’s minimum wage cannot afford a bag of rice, yet, huge billions of naira were spent in refurbishing vice president’s official residence.

Deacon Monday Enudi, the National Coordinator, Citizens Rights Concern Enhancement Initiative, popularly known as Human Rights Protection Congress, gives a hint as Nigeria celebrates her 25 Year Democracy Anniversary on June 12, 2024.

Monday Enudi, who gave the hints in an interview with Africa Investigative Magazine, said the system of government practiced in Nigeria can only be described as democracy when the decision makers humble themselves like servants to serve the masses, not lords to worship.

Enudi said the contemporary Nigeria is worse than that of 16 years ago, noting that a country practices autocracy when hardship becomes norms and its biggest currency cannot afford a loaf of bread.

Stressing further, the Right Activist elucidated that a country’s democracy is in shamble when its power supply is epileptic, yet, the masses are forced to pay exorbitant bills for services not rendered and energies not consumed.

“It is not democracy when a country with full voltage of natural endowment like oil and gas cannot maintain a functional refinery as a result of the leaders being optimal beneficiaries of the corrupt system.”

On minimum wage, he enunciated that it’s worse than democracy when the country’s minimum wage cannot afford a bag of rice, yet, huge billions of naira were spent in refurbishing vice president’s official residence.

According to him, there is nothing to celebrate as the democratic system needs an energizer, if the joint national assembly can only pass one bill in an annual to revert the old national anthem that doesn’t exhort the national interest.

In what he described as broken democracy, Comrade Enudi advised the ruling class to demonstrate a sober reflection of the country’s 25 year old democracy to make amends where necessary.

Stressing the need for acceptable governance, the coordinator of Human Rights Protection Congress, urged government to put forward and implement credible economic policies to bring about the needed change in security sector, health sector, improvement in power supply and advancement of educational sectors.

On deepening the nation’s democracy, Enudi further urged the government to uphold the tenets of democracy by promoting the rules of law, redefining social contract and fulfill her responsibilities as enshrined in the constitution.