This was just as the body stated that unless we the masses resolved to liberate ourselves from various regulations and directives been dishing out in form of reforms by Tinubu’s administration,the future of this country is bleak adding that we would be on economic and political bondage of president Tinubu’
Making this known in a statement in a jointly signed by the (NPFM),Chairman Comr Abdulmajid Yakubu Daudu and Secretary
Come Anas Ado Ahmad, a copy made available to press on Friday, in Kano
According to the statement on August 1, 2024 Nigerians hit the streets in major cities of the nation. Their object: to put an end to food inflation, the cost of living crisis, and bad governance.
However,a good number of the teenagers arrested across the country were initially thrown into police cells and later prisons for three months. Some of them were arrested for flying Russian flags,
The group then emphasised that ”
To abandon the right to protest is to assassinate our constitutional rights and confine our hands to regime manacles, and submit to its illogic of, “No more mass demonstration. No more dissent. Just lie flat and await the master’s supreme directive”, which will amount to willing slavery.
Unless president Tinubu abandon his misguided and eclectic economic policies, driven principally by rentiers, compradors, and self interested profiteers, the number of the poor are bound to increase exponentially, and his mini-Gulag will grow significantly, with the youth filling most of the remaining prison space. Under the existing conditions nothing correctional will happen in Tinubu’s Gulag. Nil.
The children of the underclass have no future under the existing ruling class in Nigeria. This ruling class has destroyed public education and welfare, social and physical infrastructure, and public morality.
It has infected us with the belief that nothing will change; that lack of progress is innate to us as a people; that any attempt to change the system will amount to catastrophe for the change seekers, as the system will destroy them, like it attempted to do with the August protest kids; and if it fails and things fall apart, the rulers will escape to their metropolitan benefactors abode.
We must insist on addressing the security challenge, cost of living, cost of governance, grand corruption, and power distance crises. Fundamentally, we must fight to reorganise production and production systems; and address redistributive justice.
We must effectively organise, conscientise, and continue with the protest culture as class struggle until our demands are met. ‘Revolutionaries change systems not just leaders.’ Remember that.,the statement said