Group seeks better funding for NHRC

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Group seeks better funding for NHRC

The Niger Delta Budget Monitoring Group has said the National Human Rights Commission is underfunded and this limits the commission’s efforts to protect citizens’ human rights.

The group stated this at its two-day sustainability strategy meeting in collaboration with other stakeholders held in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State from September 18 to 19.

The group, in its communique, said, “An agency such as the National Human Rights Commission created by law to protect human rights and civic space, as well as serve as remediation mechanisms for victims of human rights violations is systematically underfunded through poor budgetary envelopes.

“Although open civic space, human rights and democratic freedom are key pillars of democracy, civic space has continued to shrink in Nigeria, as voices of dissent are systematically repressed with impunity.”