Minister of Transportation,
Rotimi Amaechi has condemned the destructions that followed the peaceful End
SARS protest in October.
The official said the
perpetrators must face the law.
“If we don’t punish those who
caused these damages, others may do it again,” he said on Sunday.
Amaechi spoke during an
assessment of the damages at the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) headquarters in
Lagos, NAN reports.
The former Rivers State Governor
said it was legitimate to protest but illegal to destroy private and government
properties.
“This is completely disastrous.
It is not enough to vent your anger about police brutality in this manner. How
does damaging government property concern the police? Whether you like it or
not, this will be refurbished or rebuilt with government funds.
”That means the funds also belong
to those who have set this place ablaze. Those who commit crime should be held
liable and appropriate punishment meted out on them. I was a student from 1983
to 1987, that was a period when the Nigerian students were always out on the
streets, we never burnt down anything.
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“The rights to protest is defined
in the laws of Nigeria, it doesn’t include burning peoples houses or places, it
doesn’t include blocking major highways or minor roads. The law said you should
protest by the side of the road, it didn’t say you should protest and block the
roads because there are other road users.
“I may not like police brutality
and I didn’t protest. It is legitimate to protest but it is illegitimate to
take other people’s rights. The rights to protest is defined in the
constitution but it does not include burning people’s houses and government
properties”, Amaechi stressed.
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