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  • Citizen’s Solution Network Condemns Hike In UNICAL School Charges, Calls On FG To Interven

    Citizen’s Solution Network Condemns Hike In UNICAL School Charges, Calls On FG To Interven

    Citizens’ Solution Network’s Press Release on University of Calabar demonic Fee Hike

    4th December, 2023 | 15.30pm

    We are in receipt of the University of Calabar’s Management documents showing the new hike in fee that took the fees of the University between N110,000 and N155,000 for fresh and old students cutting across medical, science and non science courses.

    While we received this information with intense displeasure knowing that have been directives from the Federal Ministry of Education and The Presidency few months ago that had declared new fee hike illegal and as something that won’t happened in tertiary educational institutions.

    Today, that memo containing the directives have be flagged down and the Management of University of Calabar has gone ahead with the unbearable and unacceptable hike in fee charges.

    Citizens’ Solution Network condemns this hike in the strongest terms and reject it completely. We are seizing this moment to ask the Nigerian President and the Minister of Education to reverse this hike in school fee through clear directive to the Vice Chancellor and Management of University of Calabar, as well as to all tertiary institution Management and their VCs and Provosts.

    Nigeria currently represents 15% of the global population of all out of school children and the statistics need not get any worse. We presume the President is against fee hike, hence we ask that the hike be reversed.

    Nigerians are suffering extremely as due to the fuel subsidy removal as admitted by the President on the 4th paragraph of his 2024 Budget Presentation Speech at the National Assembly recently, additional burden in form of fee hike will only make an already dire national situation worst.

    The country needs not push its youthful population outside of the four walls of the university, and into an arm struggle that may cost the nation unprecedented setbacks and national security.

    In the absence of a listening government, an alternative pathway for arm struggle may become more attractive as a corrective step, and nobody is certain that public arms in the care of the military and police, won’t end up in the hands of citizens who have had enough and feel they have been abandoned while their natural resources are been exploited by an insensitive government.

    We ask that urgent and immediate steps be taken to end this hike in fees.

    Thanks

    Richard F Inoyo,
    Country Director,
    Citizens’ Solution Network

  • Citizens’ Solution Network’s Press release On June 12 Democracy Day

    Citizens’ Solution Network’s Press release On June 12 Democracy Day

    By Admin

    Today ought to be a day that we all are supposed to celebrate with great joy and jubilation. It is however sad that to note that, the current set of leaders we have in Nigeria are yet to truly live up to the spirit of June 12th.

    While we find the effort of the Buhari-led government to have made June 12 Nigeria’s Democracy Day commendable.

    We at Citizens Solutions Network believe more still need to be done to thoroughly and completely honour the spirit of June 12.

    As it stands, we are of the view that until the current crop of leaders we have in this country include M.K.O Abiola name among the official national list of Presidents we had ever had, their claim of believing in the ideology behind June 12 should be treated with strong and utmost suspicion.

    We at Citizens Solution Network strongly believe that, anything short of including M.K.O Abiola name among the gazetted list of Nigeria’s Presidents is a dangerous mockery of the entire struggle of June 12 that led to the death of several Nigerians, and a display of lack of genuine democratic acknowledgment and historical honesty.

    Let it be on public registry and national archive, that today, Citizens Solution Network demand the inclusion of M.K.O Abiola name to the officially recognised list of Presidents, Nigeria had ever had, and his name should come immediately after the name of IBB and before that of Abacha.

    This is the way to go to truly demonstrate sincerity to the idea and struggle. And for those saying, he never took the oath of office, we demand that the current Chief Justice of Nigeria should administer the oath to M.K.O Abiola posthumously. Let’s lead the world in this way by doing the right thing.

    Thanks

    Signed

    Richard F. Inoyo
    Country Director, Citizens Solution Network.

    For: Civilian Population and Council.

  • Kidnapping And Executive Demolitions: Citizens Solution Network’s Perspective

    Kidnapping And Executive Demolitions: Citizens Solution Network’s Perspective

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    By Richard F. Inoyo

    Exactly two weeks ago, as the Country Director of Citizens Solution Network, I put up an article in respect to the disturbing trend of kidnapping and called on citizens, state and federal governments as well as the Nigerian Police Force across the country to do their own part in the fight against kidnapping. That article was largely borne out of my dedication to the course of ensuring that as a society we nib in the bud negative gales destabilizing the sanctity of a rational and safe society.

    That said, the recent demolition of the property of a citizen accused of kidnapping by the Cross River State Government has created a new kind of concern.

    While it is on record that as a people we are all unhappy with the negative trend of kidnapping, and the fact that we all are genuinely opposed to the unlawful adoption and inhumane incarceration of another man by a group of miscreants in quest of ransome which kidnapping is all about.

    Yet, even as extremely important as it is for us all to reinvent ourselves to confront and defeat the scourge of kidnapping in our society through intelligence gathering and counter-kipnapping response. It also of equal importance to ensure that this fight against this terrible crime is carried out in such a way that no innocent person is allowed to suffer, and no perpetrator escapes the sword and wrath of justice.

    At this juncture, in order to ensure that we achieve such outcome, it would be vitally necessary to find and engage the best possible crime-tackling protocol that prevent possible executive abuse and misuse of power especially in today’s world where any person can accuse you over anything without evidence.

    And in building this error-minimization protocol of justice administration, it is important we start by taking into cognisance and asking the following question:

    “What if today someone accuses some of you of kipnapping and have your house demolished without court hearing or zero body of compelling proof? How would you feel and what would be your fate?

    Though the recent demolition of the houses of some persons accused of kidnapping by the Cross River State is backed by laws adopted by various states in 2015, but it is still questionable and create room for possible miscarriage in administration of criminal justice under the caprices of executive order.

    As a rule, the idea of separation of power should be central to all law enforcement protocol, lest bunch of executive fellows with questionable agenda may hunt down critics or dissidents in future by simply accusing them of kidnapping and have their properties confiscated or demolished without pronouncement from the Judiciary_ which happens to be the most acceptable arm of government saddled with all extant powers to entertain, try and pronounce binding judgement on accused, arrested and prosecuted persons in the light of evidence beyond reasonable doubt and bias.

    Going forward, I wish to seize this medium to ask us all to call for and demand overwhelming evidence at all times that will apprehended and overseen by an exhaustive trial of all accused persons in assigned court of competent jurisdiction before bringing down the properties of any accused person in furtherance of equity, avoidance of doubt, high-level of proof and justification of every state action.

    This I believe is the best way to safeguard a society of more powerless men, and avert error in executive decisions led by few men who a sad part of our collective history has shown that some executives had never truly cared about the poorest and most powerless demographics of our fragile society.

    Signed

    Richard F. Inoyo
    Country Director,
    Citizens Solutions Network.

    For: Civilian Population and Council.