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Auwal Musa Rafsanjani
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April 13, 2018
Mahamadou Issoufou President Niger Republic
Mahamadou Issoufou President Niger Republic

Group condemns crackdown on Civil Society in Niger Republic

Civil society leaders in Nigeria are extremely concerned about the way that President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger has been presiding over the harassment and detention of civil society leaders in Niger Republic. Over the past three years, civil society activists in Niger have come under siege from state actors in a crackdown that has led to a series of convictions, arrests and detentions affecting civil society leaders. The context has been the rising poverty in the country, the rise of protests by civil society seeking to protect the people and the increasingly authoritarian response of the State and its security agencies. The latest wave of arrests followed the demonstration of thousands of Nigeriens against the austerity measures imbedded in the 2018 budget. On 25th March 2018, security agents’ raided offices of major civil society organisations in Niger, attacked and arrested 23 of their leaders. Those arrested are:

1) Moussa Tchangari

2) Me Lirwana Abdourahamane

3) Nouhou Mahamadou Arzika

4) Ali Idrissa

5) Moctar Oumarou

6) Halarou Abdou

7) Ousseini Maiga

8) Moumoudou Seyni

9) Moustapha Ibrahim

10) Abdoul Aziz Issaka

11) Ibrahim Malam Nameiwa

12) Bachir Kadri

13) Abdoul Kader Hamza

14) Alassane Souleymane

15) Idrissa Adamou

16) Aminou Tayabou

17) Abdoulaye Mamadou Koné

18) Issoufou Maiwanzam

19) Hamaye Abdou

20) Chapiou Mahamadou

21) Mohamed Aminou Nassirou Hassane

22) Soumaila Hassane

23) Abdouljamal Alassane

They were charged for participation in an illegal demonstration and were sent to jail without trial. At the same time, the radio and television station – Radio et Télévision Labarai (RTL) was closed.

We, civil society organisations in Nigeria:

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i. Call for the immediate release of our comrades unlawfully detained in prisons in Niger;

ii. Demand for a stop at the systematic harassment and serial arrest of civil society organisations and leaders in Niger;

iii. Appeal for a review of the 2018 budget, which has significantly increased the austerity measures in Niger and increased the suffering and misery of the masses in Niger;

iv. Draw attention to the significant decline of democratic culture in Niger due to the rise of authoritarianism and attack on the rule of law by President Mahamadou Issoufou;

v. Call on the god people of Niger to continue with determination their struggle for the defense of democratic and civil rights in their country;

vi. Demand that President Muhammadu Buhari in the spirit of good neighborliness and the ECOWAS Supplementary Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance intervene with his counterpart in Niger to secure the release of civil society leaders and the edification of democracy and the rule of law.

Signed:

1) Jibrin Ibrahim, Centre for Democracy and Development

2) Y. Z. Ya’u, Centre for Technology and Development

3) John Odah, Organisation of Trade Unions of West Africa

4) Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, CISLAC

5) Idayat Hassan, Centre for Democracy and Development

6) Ezenwa Nwagwu, Say No Campaign

7) Jaye Gaskiya, Protest to Power

8) Zikirullahi Ibrahim, Resource Centre for Human Rights &Civic Education (CHRICED)

9) Okeke Anya, State of the Union (SOTU)

10) Halima Nuhu, Zero Corruption Coalition (ZCC)

11) Olanrewaju Suraju, Civil Society Network Against Corruption (CSNAC)

12) Chioma Kanu, Accountability Mechanism for Maternal New Born and Child Health in Nigeria (AMHiN)

13) Chinedu Bassey, Tax Justice and Governance Platform

14) Abubakar Siddique Mohammed, Centre for Democratic Research and Traning

15) Dr. Abubakar Muazu Borno, Coalition for Democracy and Progress (BOCADEP)

16) Asmau Joda, Centre for Women and Adolescent Empowerment .

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