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ACHIEVING A SOCIAL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION OF NIGERIA THROUGH HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY.
The collapse of the first and second Republic in Nigeria is traceable to absence of organized, strong, virile and informed civil society at the time. Civil society groups apart from being the watchdog and monitoring government policies and programmes also educate, enlighten, advocates and empowers the people with knowledge of ideal standard required of government. Unfortunately, all the civil society group that participated actively in the struggle for independence plunged headlong into politics to acquire political power by hook or crook. Most of them ended up in primitive acquisition of wealth.

The guiding philosophy of one of the foremost Nationalist R.t Hon. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe who said show the people the light and they would find their way was relegated to the background. here is construed as knowledge, knowledge of their Human Rights and duties which have been denied the people of Nigeria till date. Little wonder therefore, the military had a field day imposing themselves on Nigerians for 30 years out of 40 years of independence. The major factor that aided the reign of military cabals and junta in a generation where military dictatorship is a taboo is widespread ignorance of the citizens of their Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. The said cabals and juntas capitalized on their ignorance to institutionize mediocrity as a standard, corruption as a state policy, misgovernance and inept leadership as normal, hypocrisy and deceit as traditional, use of force and abuse of Human Rights as a way of life, primitive acquisition of wealth as the ultimate among other evils.
The Visioner / President People's Rights Organisation (PRO)Human Rights.


Again, the civil society groups that sprang up in the mid-80s and 90s who contributed to the demise of military dictatorship appears to be handicapped today because foreign donors think that democracy has been returned and therefore drastically reduced funding unfinished business of the groups to reverse the negative mindsel of the people believes all hopes of nigeria becoming better society is lost and that it is only the worst citizens that can aspire to position of authority. Worst still, the people do not believe that ultimate political power resides in them as stipulated in the Constitution, and feels handicap in the face of electoral malpractice and fraud.


People's Rights Organization, PRO has taken up the challenge with hindsight to commit itself holistically to consciousness raising Human Rights Education, sensitization, confidence building and practical empowerment of the people to enable them discover their potentials and see themselves in a new light and see also the possibility of changing the existing abnormal situation. This is to be done through imparting knowledge, skills, moulding of attitude of beneficiaries with the norms, tenets and values of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. The Human Rights values and standards would be inculcated in the minds and hearts of the target audience. At this point, the would be guided by basic Human Rights values which should be seen as the standard and a common denominator of the relations among the people and within various organs of government, and segments that make up the Nigerian Nation. The aim is to protect Human Dignity and achieve a just and humane society devoid of injustice, inequality, discrimination, intolerance, severe deprivation, corruption, misgovernance, oppression, gross Human Right abuse etc. This is what PRO is set to achieve.





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