Lead Organisation: Youth and Students Advocates for Development Initiative, YSAD. YSAD started as a student organization at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in South East Nigeria and was incorporated in November 2010. The organization is concerned with building networks and social movements that will contribute in ushering in the much desired social change in Nigeria through advocacy, training, public enlightenment, research, dialogue and public interest litigation. Over the ways, YSAD has taken bold steps towards nation-building. It featured severally on ‘Bridges,’ an NTA Network talk show, discussing issues of national importance. YSAD has also been a voice against extortion and police brutality in Nigeria. Before the eruption of the ENDSARS protest in Nigeria in October 2020, YSAD had written to the Nigerian President on the issue of widespread extortion with impunity on Nigerian roads and demanded that the Inspector General of Police be relieved of his appointment to serve as a deterrent to the Nigeria Police Force.

EaglePost, on the other hand, is a media advocacy group that promotes socio-political and economic awareness using the tools of modern information dissemination. It has its focuses mainly in matters of political and economic relevance to the youth. EaglePost is on a mission to enlighten, update and bring to the consciousness of its audience the need to get involved in public affairs, fight injustice and believe in themselves and never give up irrespective of what obtains presently. In this project, EaglePost will be responsible for influencing through traditional and social media and ensuring that more people are engaged.

This action is being led by a consortium of Youth and student advocates for development initiatives, The People’s Conscience and Eagle Post. “No Dey Give; Follow Traffic Rules” project aims to raise citizens’ awareness of the menace of extortion of Nigerians by the police & how it is connected with police brutality and galvanize citizens to move from bystanders to activists against extortion of road users by the police and sustain the call for increased welfare and funding of the police. This project is proposed for ten months and would be carried out in the southeast geopolitical zone, with Abia and Imo as pilot states. South East is one of the geopolitical zones where the issue of police extortion and brutality is more pronounced.

The project will carry out the following actions to achieve these goals:

• Carry out strategic advocacy visits.
• Engage relevant stakeholders through dialogue.
• Carry out sensitization workshops for road transport workers.
• Embark on motor park outreaches.
• Radio talk shows and jingles.
• Establish a public complaint log.
• Through the above actions, the project is expected to yield the following results:
• An increased number of citizens are aware of the link between extortion and police brutality and join in the fight against extortion and brutality.
•  Increased number of citizens who obey traffic rules.
• Increased number of citizens who fight against extortion and advocate for improved welfare of the police and police accountability.