Rivers Crisis: Civil Society Groups Plan Mass Protest

As the political crisis rocking Rivers State continues to linger, the Coalition of Civil Society Organisations in the state has finalized plans for a peaceful protest march in the state next week.
The coordinator of the group in the state, who is also, the Executive Director, Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (IHRHL), Barr Anyakwe Nsirimovu disclosed this yesterday while speaking to The Tide in an interview. He said that what informed the decisions to embark on the protest was  the recent political impasses rocking the state.
Barrister Anyakwe stated that the civil society Organisations in the state can no longer keep quiet and watch the crisis degenerate, adding that time has come for every responsible citizen of the state to rise up and condemn the impasse.
According to him, the act that played out at the state House of Assembly recently was unnecessary while describing the actions of the state legislators as barbaric and uncivilized.
“We have concluded all arrangements to embarks on peaceful protest in the state to register our stand on the political crisis rocking the state and its effects on the state. If every body keeps quite, the crisis can degenerate to some thing else he declared.
The executive director of IHRHL particularly picked hole in the action of some Rivers Youths who were  hired to Port Harcourt International Airport to embarrass the four Northern Governors who paid solidarity visit on the state Governor, Rt Hon Chibuike Amaechi recently, noting that the whole action was targeted at derailing developmental projects initiated by the present administration in the state.
He averred that the coalition of civil society organisations in the state  was against the on-going crisis in the state, and called on all well meaning people of the state to join hands with the groups to ensure that the impunity is put to an end.
The coordinator said that it was the civil society groups and the media that fought for the nation’s democracy, stressing that they could no longer fold her hands and watch their effort being truncated due to the actions of some few individuals in the country.
“We fought for the democracy, we battled the military, he said., adding that the group was ready to resist any attempt that would drag the state back to the  past era of insecurity.