Lawyer Hails National Confab

A Port Harcourt based legal practitioner and human rights activist, Barr. Jackson Assor has said that the need for national conference had become necessary because of the loss of confidence in Nigeria institutions.
Barr. Assor, who stated this while speaking with The Tide in Port Harcourt, noted that the national conference was long overdue.
He said a situation where Nigerians could no longer live peacefully in their country was worrisome.
The Port Harcourt lawyer expressed regret that the rise in insurgency was indicative of the state of the state the country had regressed and noted that things would not continue to go hang.
Barr. Assor lamented that after 53 years of independence, Nigeria was still grappling with the problems of integration and patriotism.
He said that ethnicism had been the bane of the Nigeria nation state as well as the festering corruption.
The legal practitioner remarked that so long as Nigerians were discriminated against in their home country, remaining in the same country could never work optimally.
“Unless parochial interests, ethnic Chauvinism, nepotism, favouritism, religious fanaticism among others were jettisoned, the Nigerian nation – state would continue to face the problem of lack of patriotism”, he stated.
He also expressed regret that the political class had continued to rape the country of its petro-naira without justifying same with provision of social infrastructure.
Barr. Assor urged Nigerians to support the National Conference to prevent the country from grinding to a halt.