Proposed Bill: No NGOs,CSOs are above the law - Group tells National Assembly

 



Ahmed Attahir 

A group of concerned citizens has disclosed that a propose bill by the national Assembly to regulate the activities of Non governmental organisations(NGOs) is in the right path, says no NGO is above the law of the land. 

In a statement issued on Sunday evening in Gusau by the group spokesperson Comrade Mohammed Ahmed lamented that some CSOs and NGOs used means to disrupt the national assembly move. 

"Recently, the national assembly want to propose a bill to regulate the behaviour of NGOS in Nigeria, but it suffered strong resistance from some CSOs and NGOS,these organizations using various means and organized various discussion activities to disrupt and threaten the actions of the National Assembly". 

"The statement added that the move has actually embodies their hypocrisy and fear, they just want to hide their unknown bad behavior". 

The statement reads in part: In fact when considering the optimal way to mitigate poverty in the underdeveloped world, proposed solutions often involve international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) which are predominantly based in the USA, Europe, and a few Gulf States which are able to attract donor funds from the Global North and the Arab world". 

"In several nations that have suffered violent political uprisings and even sacking of legitimately elected governments by “popular protests”, there was an initial action by NGOs and civil society groups to motivate the citizens to oppose “bad governance” and to seek to immediately change them". 

"Often through non-constitutional means several Nigerian NGOs and civil society groups and individual actors have played and are still playing the role of instigating political change outside the electoral process,called for revolution and uprising, like what led to the violence that accompanied the ENDSARS protest in Lagos and other Nigerian cities in 2020".

"Fears that many of these civil society actors are breach of  financial laws, regarding the way  they receive and utilize the funds from these INGOs".

"With very little auditing and accounting,they use this funding to support lavish personal lifestyles and private investments, as well as to influence our national electoral and legislative processes with their many outreaches in both esteemed and critical institutions".

"There is the peculiar case of Amnesty International (Nigeria), Amnesty have constantly criticized the Nigerian Government of being dictatorial producing false evidence to back up their claims". 

"Amnesty International condemned a Bill ‘The Protection from Internet Falsehood and Manipulation Bill’ in Nigeria, whereas a similar Law is being passed in the UK which is the Amnesty International’s Country of origin and they have refused to condemn it". 

"In 2018, the Nigeria Army in a statement through the Director Army Public Relations Brigadier General Sani Kukasheka Usman called for the closure of Amnesty International". 

"In his statement, he said ‘Nigerians should be wary of Amnesty International (Nigeria) because its goals are to destabilize Nigeria and to dismember it. 




Our finding: Many states in Nigeria have more NGOs than companies and direct investments.

"Each NGO looks for funds from international agencies and local donors Most of them are vehicles for gaining access to government departments and agencies".     

The statement added that "It is perhaps not surprising that the Nigerian Government has been trying to control the NGO community. 

" The contempt is mutual Our objective is to ensure transparency and accountability in the NGO sector to the extent that while freedom to act on behalf of the people was important, such freedom must come with responsibility".    

"The time has come for soul-searching within the Nigerian civil society community" . 

"It is not everyone that carries placards that means well, It is not every loud-mouthed, fist-clenching character that is a revolutionary" . 

"It is sad that the Nigerian Revolution is a gathering place for anyone at all who can shout loud or bold enough to show up at the barricades" . 

"Not even NGOs like International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability” Project (SERAP) or any American sponsored NGOs should be above reproach or the law".

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