By Emma Amaize
WARRI- COMMITTEE for Defence of Human Rights, CDHR, in Delta State, has called on Federal and State Governments to peg house rents in the country through their respective ministries/parasatals as the present cost is excruciating on the common man.

The group also urged the Joint Task Force, JTF, on the Niger-Delta to halt all forms of extra-judicial killings of unarmed “militants” and ‘ex militants’ in the Niger-Delta in their bid to fish out John Togo and his men”.

In a statement jointly signed by the chairman and secretary, Benefit Orubgo, Esq and Chief W.A. Omeneyone respectively, the group asserted, “We commend President Goodluck Jonathan for going tough on cement manufacturers and kerosene dealers, their products being items that affect common man in the society. Again, there is another fundamental issue plaguing Nigerians and begging for Mr. President’s attention. And that is the cost of house rents, it is particularly overbearing on the citizenry”.

We, therefore, call on the Federal Government and state governments to pet rents of houses in the country through their appropriate ministries and possibly embark on massive establishment of planned low cost housing estates across the country to ameliorate the plight of the common man in Nigeria”, the group stated.

On the military task force, the group asserted, “We urge the JTF to subject all perceived militants involved in any form of criminality to proper investigations and prosecution in the law court and not for it to be the accuser, investigator, a court unto itself and the executioner in its operations in the Niger-Delta”.