The African Action Congress has asked the Department of State Services to desist from attempting to infringe on the rights of Nigerians to “freely assemble, organise and express themselves without any intimidation.”
A statement by Peter Afunanya, its spokesman, had accused some clerics and prominent leaders of making divisive comments and collaborating with external forces seeking to plunge Nigeria into crisis. “In the acceptance of the aforementioned, the DSS in a press statement has taken its usual uncivilised posture of heating up the polity with threats and subversive statements against the constitutional rights of Nigerians to freely speak, assemble and protest against the unfortunate trend of insecurity, poverty, corruption and total lack of respect for citizenship.