June 12, (THEWILL) – A faction of the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) has cautioned the administration of President Bola Tinubu against the incessant militarisation of the country’s democracy. According to the IYC, despite the acceptable fact that June 12, 1993, has gone down in history as a day when Nigerians experienced the freest and fairest elections, the over-militarisation of the country’s democracy had become worrisome. The IYC, through its National Spokesman, Comrade Bedford Berefa, argued that after several years of democratic rule in the county, there are still traces of military rule in governance.
It insisted that there is evident and repeated use of absolute power by the executive arm of government to dominate the rising dissenting voices of the people. “Our democracy has been militarized with no consideration for the people, the power of the people has been undermined, the people are no longer the centre of government, manipulations and intimidation of the people has become the order of the day. “There have been constant human rights violations everywhere, particularly in the Ijaw nation and the Niger Delta region.
At the slightest provocation, communities and people are being brutalised. “The recent military escapade at the Igbomotoru community in Bayelsa state tells it all. Communities are constantly ransacked by the military, and harmless people are being killed without justice in an acclaimed practising democracy with no form of investigation done to p.