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AFJN Exe. Director Aneidi Okure Quoted in America on Nigerian Protests

Friday, October 23, 2020

by Lydia Andrews

On October 23, 2020, Patrick Egwu’s article “Nigeria’s Catholic leaders call for an end to crackdown on #EndSARS protestors” in America quotes Rev. Aniedi Okure, AFJN Executive Director. In the article Rev. Okure says ““This protest is long overdue because the people have endured to a breaking point,” said Aniedi Okure, O.P., the executive director of the African Faith and Justice Network, a Catholic nonprofit based in Washington. “Nigerians have been very restrained with all the atrocities committed by the police over the years.” Read the full article here: https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/10/23/nigeria-sars-protests-shooting-catholic-lagos.