Members of “Revolution Now” led
by the publisher of Sahara Reporters, Mr Omoyele Sowore, on Monday were
attacked by security agents in Osogbo, the Osun State capital as they hit the
streets for protest.
Also, a septuagenarian, Mrs
Sariyu Akanmu, a hawker, who joined the protesting youths was seriously
brutalised by the combined forces of operatives of DSS, Police, and Nigeria
Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).
Recall that the presidency has
since declared Sowore’s call for revolution a treasonable felony, which led to
his arrest on Friday by operatives of the Department of Security Service (DSS).
The protesters, after addressing
pressmen at NUJ Correspondents’ Chapel early Monday morning subsequently move
to hit the street in protest but were violently accosted, brutalised and
arrested, including the leader of the group.
Earlier in his address, the
leader of the group, Comrade Olawale Adebayo said the call for revolution by
Sowore was necessitated by seeming ineptitude and insensitive of the Buhari led
administration.
He said every member of the group
was convinced that there was an urgent need for Nigerians to clamour for change
in the political order and entrenchment of selfless leadership.
He said: The coalition for
revolution and other concerned Nigerians all over the nation, and precisely in
Osun state today aligned with the pains of the voiceless and oppressed
Nigerians, having observed the spate of joblessness, insecurity, hunger,
modulated workers salary and fraudulent implication of the Contributory Pension
Scheme in Nigeria and especially Osun state.
” We are also worried about the
menace of estimated electricity billing and epileptic power supply, coupled
with the destruction of farms by herdsmen, the inconsiderate and insensitive
levies being imposed on our artisans, Okada riders, drivers and traders in the
state. We hereby maintain that we have inalienable, constitutional and
fundamental human rights to peacefully protest the inadequacies.
“We, therefore, demand the
unconditional release of Omoyele Sowore and an end to systemic corruption,
brutality, harassment and intimidation, especially in the student populated
areas in Osun state and the country at large”.
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