The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL) has condemned the attack on the Abuja office of Amnesty International on Monday by a civil society organization under the name GOPRI.
The attack reportedly continued Tuesday after the group of protesters had on Monday barricaded the Abuja office of AI, demanding that the organization should leave Nigeria within 24 hours.
The Executive Chairman of CACOL, Mr. Debo Adeniran expressed shock that any civil society organization could think of attacking such a popular global organization. He said “we are talking here about an organization with the reputation of being on the side of the less privileged and voiceless whose rights are constantly trampled up. The incidence is totally embarrassing and unacceptable. It is a move that indicate a slide back to the dark days of the military when human rights organizations and activists were hounded into exile or driven ‘underground’.”
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