Security operatives on Wednesday morning arrested 22 #RevolutionNow protesters among hundreds that took to the streets to kick against insecurity, bad governance and corruption in Lagos.
The protesters said it was unacceptable politicians and their cronies, who were less than a percent of the population, were running this country on autopilot.They decried alarming insecurity, unemployment, hunger, increase in taxation and plans to review education budget downwards, insisting the government must live up to its constitutional responsibility of ensuring social security for the masses.
Condemning the action of the security operatives, co-convener, Coalition for Revolution , Gbenga Komolafe, said such attacks cannot stop them, adding the security operatives attacked them shortly after their demands were read.He said armed anti-riot policemen attacked members of the Coalition for Revolution in several cities as they gathered for peaceful demonstrations with teargas.
“The security apparatus of a decadent state which has no respect for its own laws must be reminded that Justice Maureen Onyetenu ruled in May that a similar crackdown on the August 5, 2019 #RevolutionNow protests was illegal and a wanton slap on the democratic rights of citizens to peaceful protest in the republic.
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