e-2940 (Foreign affairs)
- Keywords
- Civil and human rights
- Foreign policy
- Foreign public officials
- Foreign students
- Nigeria
- Travel restrictions
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the Prime Minister
- There is police brutality in Nigeria;
- SARS stands for Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a wing of the police force in Nigeria (a country of 200 million people);
- This unit of police barely attend to robbery or violent crimes but frequently attack innocent civilians, especially young adults, torture, detain and kill without any repercussions or any due process to bring the perpetrators to book;
- This situation is currently trending worldwide as #EndSARS and is getting worse by the day;
- Government response to peoples demand was to rename SARS to SWAT and the killings continue unabated;
- There is corruption and looting of public funds;
- Although the country is rich in natural and human resources, unfortunately the politicians and pubic office holders never cease to steal billions of dollars in public funds;
- Most of these funds are typically stashed away in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada at the expense of neglected public infrastructure;
- It is definite that there are no hopes of effecting a change within such contraption of epic corrupt proportions; and
- Therefore we plead with the Government of Canada to assist to effect actions prescribed below.
- Open for signature
- November 24, 2020, at 3:03 p.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- March 24, 2021, at 3:03 p.m. (EDT)