#RevolutionNow: Arrested protesters released in Lagos, Abuja, detained in Osun
PREMIUM TIMES
reported how scores of protesters were arrested in different states as security
agencies used force to stop the largely peaceful #RevolutionNow protests.
The protesters are
demanding better governance in Nigeria, an end to corruption and improvement in
the security and welfare of citizens.
The actions of the
security agencies have been condemned by civic groups and many Nigerians.
In Lagos, journalist
Agba Jalingo and 18 other protesters who were arrested during the protest were
released Wednesday evening. Inibehe Effiong, a lawyer and activist, told
PREMIUM TIMES that all the 19 protesters that were arrested in Lagos had been
freed.
“They were taken
from Area F to Ikeja police command and were subsequently taken to mobile
court, and all of them were discharged,” he said.
In Abuja, Deji
Adeyanju, one of the organisers of the protest confirmed that all the arrested
protesters had been released.
However, it was a
different story for seven protesters in Osun who were kept in custody after
their arrest.
Olawale Bakare and
six others arrested at the #RevolutionNow protest in Osun State will be
spending the night at the State Security Service custody, PREMIUM TIMES learnt.
Mr Bakare was
arrested alongside Dunsi Olowolafe, Abiodun Sanusi, Gift Martins, Martins
Jesuloni, and two others in Osogbo on Wednesday.
On Wednesday
evening, this newspaper spoke with one of the arrested protesters, Mr
Olowolafe, who confirmed that they were still in SSS custody and would be
spending the night there.
A lawyer to the Osun
protesters, Alfred Adegoke, also narrated his experience in trying to secure
bail for his clients.
“We got to the SSS
today to check on the arrested individuals but the overzealous SSS did not
allow us to get them released. They have gone to obtain an order to detain them
for 14 days,” Mr Adegoke said.
PREMIUM TIMES could
not obtain the details of the remand order allegedly obtained by the SSS, as of
the time of this report.
Mr Adegoke said he
would return to the SSS office on Thursday to demand bail for the protesters.
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