{"id":51358,"date":"2016-07-21T06:09:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T05:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=51358"},"modified":"2016-07-21T06:09:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T05:09:52","slug":"dogara-must-end-debate-bill-regulate-civil-society-serap-wardc-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/dogara-must-end-debate-bill-regulate-civil-society-serap-wardc-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Dogara must end debate on bill to regulate civil society&#8212;-SERAP, WARDC, others"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"adn ads\">\n<div class=\"gs\">\n<div id=\":p3\" class=\"ii gt adP adO\">\n<div id=\":sj\" class=\"a3s aXjCH m1560a9b53d7b17d4\">Some civil society groups in Nigeria have condemned a bill before the<br \/>\nHouse of Representatives which \u201cseeks to properly supervise, monitor and<br \/>\nco-ordinate Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and Community Based<br \/>\nOrganizations (CBOs) in Nigeria.\u201d<br \/>\nThe groups are: Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP);<br \/>\nWomen Advocates and Documentation Centre (WARDC); Women Empowerment and<br \/>\nLegal Aid Initiative, (WELA); Partnership for Justice, and Committee for<br \/>\nDefence of Human Rights (CDHR).<br \/>\nThe groups in a statement today signed on their behalf by SERAP executive<br \/>\ndirector Adetokunbo Mumuni expressed \u201cdeep concern that the National<br \/>\nAssembly of Nigeria is pursuing anti-people and anti-civil society agenda<br \/>\nby using its law-making powers to wage a deliberate campaign to shield its<br \/>\nmembers from accountability.\u201d<br \/>\nThe statement reads in part: \u201cThe latest in the series of obnoxious and<br \/>\nrepressive bills being promoted in the National Assembly is the so-called<br \/>\nbill to establish a regulatory commission to monitor the work of civil<br \/>\nsociety organizations in the country, which passed second reading in the<br \/>\nHouse of Representatives at a plenary session on 14 July 2016, under the<br \/>\nleadership of Speaker Yakubu Gogara who is pushing, promoting and<br \/>\nfast-tracking the bill.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cUnder the bill, civil society and community groups including the labour<br \/>\nunion, association of journalists, association of teachers, association of<br \/>\nmarket women, human rights NGOs and other civil society bodies will face<br \/>\nintrusive and unwarranted surveillance of their operations. The bill<br \/>\nclearly aims not only to undermine and frustrate the work of independent<br \/>\ncivil society and community organizations in the country but also to<br \/>\nintimidate human rights and anti-corruption activists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike the anti-social media bill, the anti-civil society bill would<br \/>\nseriously violate citizens\u2019 human rights to freedom of expression,<br \/>\nassociation and assembly, preventing them from freely forming<br \/>\norganizations, meeting together and criticizing the abuse of legislative<br \/>\npowers and allegations of massive corruption in the National Assembly. We<br \/>\nbelieve that the bill demonstrates the National Assembly\u2019s pattern of<br \/>\nproposing anti-people and anti-civil society bills while at the same time<br \/>\npromoting bills such as the immunity and life pensions bills that serve<br \/>\ntheir personal and financial interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are deeply concerned that the bill if passed would outlaw<br \/>\nanticorruption and human rights activism in this country. We believe that<br \/>\nthe bill is an attempt to divert public attention from the deepening<br \/>\ncrisis of public trust and confidence in the National Assembly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike the anti-social media bill, this anti-civil society bill is entirely<br \/>\nunnecessary as Nigeria already has enough legislation such as the<br \/>\nCompanies and Allied Matters Act, the criminal code and the penal code and<br \/>\nother common law provisions to address any purported issues of \u201cdefective<br \/>\noperational values of such organizations that are left to operate within<br \/>\nits own Constitution and sometimes within the whims and caprices of their<br \/>\ndonors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe note that if any institution needs monitoring at the moment, it should<br \/>\nbe the National Assembly as it is common knowledge that the priorities of<br \/>\nthe Senate and House of Representatives in the past months have been to<br \/>\npush for immunity for its principal officials against corruption; life<br \/>\npensions for members including former governors now serving in the<br \/>\nNational Assembly; and anti-social media bill which was temporarily<br \/>\ndropped but we now understand the Senate has completed plans to bring<br \/>\nback.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe consider the anti-civil society bill being promoted by the leadership<br \/>\nof the House of Representatives as marking a new and disturbing pattern of<br \/>\nrepressive and anti-people\u2019s bills being championed by the National<br \/>\nAssembly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe agree with Hon Oghene Emmanuel Egor (APC: Delta) who opposed the bill<br \/>\nwhen he said that \u201cthe establishment of the [anti-civil society]<br \/>\nCommission would defeat the aim and objectives of CSOs as it may attempt<br \/>\nto manage and control funds received\u201d, and that \u201cit is not within the<br \/>\njurisdictions of the Federal Government to monitor funds that it did not<br \/>\ndonate nor have ownership of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bill also clearly amounts to interference and restriction of the work<br \/>\nof independent civil society and community organizations in the country.<br \/>\nThe bill also directly violates constitutionally and internationally<br \/>\nguaranteed human rights and the UN Declaration on the Right and<br \/>\nResponsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and<br \/>\nProtect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms<br \/>\nadopted by the General Assembly in 1999.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bill titled \u201cA Bill to provide for the Establishment of Non-<br \/>\nGovernmental Organizations (NGO) Regulatory Commission Nigeria\u201d was<br \/>\nintroduced by Umar Buba Jibril (Deputy Leader, PDP: Kogi) According to<br \/>\nJibril, the bill \u201cseeks to properly supervise, monitor and co-ordinate<br \/>\nCivil Society Organizations (CSOs) and Community Based Organizations<br \/>\n(CBOs).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe note that Nigeria has many well-established and reputable civil<br \/>\nsociety groups which have continued to promote transparency,<br \/>\naccountability in governance and respect for human rights over many years.<br \/>\nCivil society plays a crucial role both in helping draw attention to<br \/>\nabuses by state agents and by providing support and services to victims of<br \/>\nhuman rights violations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe contend that if the governments of General Sani Abacha and Ibrahim<br \/>\nBabangida as repressive as they were could not win the battle to clampdown<br \/>\non the civil society, this latest effort by the House of Representatives<br \/>\nwill fail woefully.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe further note that the anti-civil society bill amounts to regulation of<br \/>\nthe constitutional and internationally recognized human rights of<br \/>\nNigerians to freedom of expression and association and therefore<br \/>\nconstitutes a blatant affront on constitutional authority and legitimacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We also note that the United Nations, the African Union and the African<br \/>\nCommission on Human and Peoples\u2019 Rights have repeatedly affirmed the<br \/>\nimportance of civil society. human rights defenders. The Kigali<br \/>\nDeclaration, adopted by the African Union Ministerial Conference on Human<br \/>\nRights in May 2003, calls on African governments to \u201ctake appropriate<br \/>\nsteps to implement the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders in<br \/>\nAfrica.\u201d The UN Declaration sets down a series of principles and standards<br \/>\naimed at ensuring that states fully support the efforts of human rights<br \/>\ndefenders and ensure that they are free to conduct their activities for<br \/>\nthe promotion, protection and effective realization of human rights<br \/>\nwithout hindrance or fear of reprisals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe therefore call the Speaker of the House of Representatives Yakubu<br \/>\nDogara to use his leadership position to ensure the withdrawal of the<br \/>\nanti-civil society bill from the House. We will take all appropriate legal<br \/>\nactions nationally and internationally to ensure that the bill is dropped<br \/>\nand promote the rights to freedom of expression, association, and peaceful<br \/>\nassembly in Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"hi\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ajx\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gA gt acV\"><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some civil society groups in Nigeria have condemned a bill before the House of Representatives which \u201cseeks to properly supervise, monitor and co-ordinate Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and Community Based&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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