Human Rights

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Human Rights and Environmental Obligations

1. Human Rights

The practice of democracy entails the promotion of human rights. Accordingly, the Party would respect all the provisions in the Constitution in this respect. The National Human Rights Commission would be further strengthened to take up cases in law courts on behalf of the poor and the weak, whose rights have been violated. In this, the NYSC legal services would be profitably exploited for this purpose. The services would also be utilized to ensure that no Nigerian is denied free access to justice on account of his/her financial status.

The equality of all Nigerians before the law is a core principle of the Party. In this regard, the Party would put the necessary legal instrument in place to ensure that any persons detained without trial or whose cases have been mentioned in court but not concluded, within a period exceeding what he could have served if he had been found guilty, would be freed on the expiration of such period in detention or awaiting trial, so long as such offence does not involve capital punishment, treason, corruption, misuse of public office and drug offences.

The Party would ensure that Nigeria respects all protocols and international obligations dealing with human rights and people’s rights to which she is signatory. Peoples and economic rights would be promoted by ensuring that the people have right to their customs, tradition, environment, equal economic opportunities and fair distribution of social service.

The right to peaceful assembly and association, including political parties, freedom of speech and opinion, religious beliefs, life, etc. would be guaranteed by the Party. The principle that the rights of any person should not be allowed to deny another his own rights, should be upheld.

2. Environmental Obligations

The growing worldwide need for the protection of the environment is not without justification. The desire to protect wild life and plants is not just for its sake but for the good of humanity as well. An unpolluted environment is good for human living and life, not only in hygienic term but also for economic relevance.

The rivers, oceans and seas provide us with sea foods as do the vegetational areas and forests as adequately articulated in this manifesto.