Enough is Enough: Conveners Berate Commissioner For Denying Notice Of Visit

LAGOS, April 17, (THEWILL) - The Enough is Enough Nigeria group that protested in Lagos last Tuesday, has faulted claim by the Lagos State Information Commissioner that no government functionary was informed of the visit to the Alausa seat of government by the officials of the Enough is Enough group".

But the group in an online statement signed by Cheta Nwanze representing the Coalition and made available to THEWILL in Lagos condemned the press release issued last Thursday by the Commissioner for Information in Lagos State, in response to the youth protest.

According to the group, the release credited to the Commissioner: "It is however curious that no government functionary was informed of the visit to the Alausa seat of government by the officials of the Enough is Enough group", was in bad taste and did not befit a person in the name of a state commissioner.  

The letter dated March 30,2010 by the group and addressed to Governor Fashola intimating him of the group’s plan to embark on a peaceful rally to the government house, Alausa on April 13, was also sent to THEWILL.

"The letter that was sent to the Governor’s Office, which was acknowledged by the Governor's Chief of Staff on March 30 2010, two weeks before the protest. As a matter of fact, our letter to the police was sent at the same period, and the police promptly responded, and provided adequate security on the day of the march".

"The protest, as we noted in our letter to Governor Babatunde Fashola, was not about the governor, and our campaign is way beyond Governor Fashola, or any other individual. It is a national campaign, working against a system that has among other things, made it easy for government officials to ignore the electorate. And we are committed to making sure that the youths vote count in the 2011 elections”, the statement said.

"We are not a political organization, and we have no affiliations with any individual, group of persons or political party. It is in fact because of this that, when we were courteously invited by the Speaker of the Lagos House of Assembly to receive us in the absence of the governor, we declined; because we have no interest in politics," they said.