International financial institutions are promoting Nigeria’s unpleasant poverty profile says Femi Falana, lawyer and human rights activist.
According to him, Nigeria has been held captive by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). This fact, he said, is one that the federal government is bent on hiding from Nigerians.
The activist while speaking at the launch a recent report by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), on Thursday said “Why is the government desperate to silence us? It is to hide from Nigeria information about misgovernance, information about corruption, wanton corruption, information regarding the reckless killings of our people, unwarranted abductions of our people including schoolchildren, undergraduates, secondary school students and even primary school pupils.
“Government is also determined to hide from us the fact that our country has been captured by the IMF and the World Bank whose neoliberal economic policies have continued to promote poverty in our country.”
SERAP’s report is titled “Something to Hide?: Media Freedom Under Siege in Nigeria” details cases of harassment, intimidation, illegal arrest, and detention of Journalists across the country.
It also documents how media practitioners, journalists have been attacked by Nigerian authorities while carring out their duties.
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