The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has set up Legal Support Services Teams across the country to offer free legal services to #EndBadGovernance protesters whose fundamental rights may be breached during the nationwide protests.
Youths across the country began the much touted protest on August 1.
Prices of food and basic commodities have gone through the roof in the last months, as Nigerians battle one of the country’s worst inflation rates and economic crises sparked by the government’s twin policies of petrol subsidy removal and unification of forex windows.
President of the NBA Yakubu Maikyau, a senior advocate, directed all chairpersons of the 130 branches of the association to ensure that their respective human rights committees take up observed or reported cases of breach of fundamental right (s) of any citizen, harassment, intimidation or torture perpetrated by law enforcement agents, the protesters or other identified members of the public in the course of the protest.
Chairpersons of the NBA branches have also been directed to set up situation monitoring committees to monitor and report activities and interactions between law enforcement agents and protesters.
The NBA has also set up an online monitoring form to be filled out by persons whose rights are breached.
