In this edition...
'Build Capacity of CSOs for Engagement'
– Miliki
If you described him as controversial, fluid or some other unfriendly adjectives, you will probably be right.
Idris alias 'Miliki', Abdul is not only a man of many fronts but a man of wits, courage and discipline. He is
known among the non-profit practitioners in Nigeria as blunt, lucid and bold in his approach to and believes on
issue. He is one man that has dined with virtually all the lead actors in the sector. From Lagos to Kaduna, and
Port Harcourt to Sokoto, Abdul is a known character. He is a strong member of the human rights groups in
Nigeria and had played very active roles in ensuring the survival and sustenance of that group. Recently on
September 25 in Abuja, the Managing Editor, Mohammed Bougei Attah met with him where he shared some
issues about the sector, the actors and civil society movement in Nigeria. Except:
Good evening Abdul Miliki.
Good evening, for proper introduction,
my name is Idris Maliki Abdul, am the
Executive Director, Center for Human
Right and Conflict Resolution
(CHRCR), Lokoja. I have been in the
NGO sector in the last eighteen years so I
know partially the history of the civil
society movement in Nigeria.
This is a good lead to start, I also recall
that you have been part of the civil
rights movement from your very first
entry into the NGO sector in Nigeria,
can you give us a background about
your human rights activism in the past.
I think I would say precisely that I have
been in the NGO sector since 1989 and I
started mainly from the Civil Liberties
Organization (CLO), which we started in
Kaduna. It was the first branch outside
Lagos along with people like Festus
Okoye, the late Gbenga Adoki and the
rest of them. I was also very active with
Women in Nigeria (WIN), Kaduna. I was
the Public Relations Secretary for four
solid years. I was also Director of
Organization of CLO in Kaduna. I
started my NGO activism mainly in
Kaduna. Since that time till today I have
been close and working with many
NGOs. All these years I have bee [Readmore..]
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