Kingdom Okere: Tinubu Unleashed Terror On Peaceful Protesters At MKO Abiola Stadium

Kingdom Okere, convener of Lawyers successful Defence of Democracy and Human Rights has made claims that President Bola Tinubu “unleashed terror” connected peaceful protesters during the nationwide protests connected August 1st astatine the MKO Abiola stadium successful Abuja.

Okere made these allegations connected Friday during an interrogation with ARISE NEWS erstwhile asked astir what transpired during the archetypal time of the protests.

Narrating the ordeal, helium said, “By the clip I arrived astatine the MKO Abiola stadium wherever we person been notified that determination is simply a tribunal bid confining the protestation successful Abuja astatine MKO Abiola stadium, I met my member comrade Deji Adeyanju, helium was already discussing with the CP of police, and the media men were besides determination and I joined them and we tried to proffer solutions, we tried to dissect the alleged tribunal bid which we are appealing this morning. We person already filed a announcement of appeal. It’s an bid from a tribunal of competent jurisdiction, a precocious tribunal of the FCT and it ought to beryllium obeyed until acceptable speech and that is what we person taken steps to bash to question to acceptable it aside.

“But portion we did that, we saw the request to respect tribunal bid and we tried to confine our enactment astatine the MKO Abiola stadium. That we did for astir 2 hours until the authorities themselves, it is this authorities of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the antheral who himself protested severally and the antheral who sponsored respective civilian protests successful Nigeria since the inception of ideology and during the subject era. Tinubu himself not lone protested, but sponsored respective protests successful this country. He is the idiosyncratic present that unleashed mayhem, that unleashed panic connected the peaceful protesters. While we were determination astatine the MKO Abiola stadium, we saw much than 10 coaster buses that conveyed their thugs to MKO Abiola stadium to travel and onslaught the protesters. Unfortunately for them, immoderate of the thugs they hired, aft they had collected 2000 naira (each), they joined the protestation due to the fact that they excessively are hungry, they excessively are buying from the aforesaid market, they excessively are suffering from the insecurity, poorness and misery that this authorities of APC has unleashed connected us. That was precisely what happened until those thugs that were imported by the cabals successful Tinubu medication came. The protestation was confined astatine MKO Abiola stadium, it remained peaceful.”

Okere besides noted that portion the constabulary initially sought to dialog with and support the protesters, things aboriginal turned convulsive with constabulary releasing teargas connected harmless protesters

“The FCT commissioner, helium was excessively professional, helium tried to calm the concern and tried to guarantee that we protestation wrong the ambits of the instrumentality portion helium was emphasising connected the request to obey the tribunal order. The constabulary and roadworthy information and different sister information agencies escorted the protesters until they walked down from the concern bridge, heading to autarkic avenue, to divert to Eagle Square to proceed our peaceful protest. That was erstwhile the constabulary released teargas connected guiltless peaceful and harmless protesters. Not conscionable teargas, they turned the full situation to a warfare zone. In fact, you could hardly breathe, radical ran helter skelter. Those of america that were asthmatic, we tried to support harmless and 2 oregon 3 radical fainted but were aboriginal revived.”

The Lawyer erstwhile again called for radical to travel retired to prosecute successful peaceful protests and not riot oregon spot destruction.

He said, “Any signifier of unit that leads to demolition of nationalist properties and backstage properties of chap citizens indispensable beryllium condemned. I don’t spot your close to state of look to pb to demolition of nationalist and backstage properties. You tin explicit your grievances wrong the ambits of the law, lawfully and the authorities hears you. And if it is simply a authorities that thinks well, constructive criticisms helps authorities to retrace their steps.

“We promote radical to travel retired and protestation peacefully and explicit their misgivings astir things that are going connected successful this country. And we besides expect the president of this state to beryllium a listening president and to instrumentality immoderate proactive steps to amusement that helium is acceptable to code these issues.”

Melissa Enoch

The station Kingdom Okere: Tinubu Unleashed Terror On Peaceful Protesters At MKO Abiola Stadium appeared archetypal connected Arise News.