A coalition of Nigerians under the aegis of #Occupy Unlimited & Be The Change Organisation# led by popular musician, Charles Oputa (popularly called Charlie Boy) on Tuesday led over 300 protesters to shut down the National Assembly for about five hours.
They were protesting against looters of the nation’s treasury in the legislature.
For over five hours, vehicles, visitors and legislators neither went into the National Assembly complex nor came out.
Others leaders of the protesters included Retson Tedheke and a Lagos-based social activist, Agatha Benson.
They demanded the removal of the immunity clause from the constitution to pave the way for the prosecution of the President and governors whenever they contravened the law by dipping their hands into the national purse.
Inscriptions on the placards carried by some of the protesters read, “We need real CBN Agric investment,” “State/LGs joint account is under-developing LGAs nationwide,” “Legislators are not contractors,” “Budget and constituency projects fraud must stop immediately,” and “ Make N’Assembly budget public now.”
source: http://punchng.com/protesters-shut-nassembly/
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