Tobi Adebayo
#RevolutionNow convener, Omoyele Sowore has been released by the police in Abuja.
Sowore alongside other supporters of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, was arrested at the premises of the Federal High Court, Abuja.
They had gone to show support for Kanu who is facing charges of treasonable felony.
Coordinator of the Coalition of Civil Society Organisations, Dimeji Macaulay confirmed their release in a statement issued on Monday.
“We condemn this attack as part of the continuous descent of the country into a brutish state of military repression. It is completely unacceptable, and we enjoin all Nigerians interested in preserving this country’s hard-earned democracy to condemn this attack on the press, on activists and lawyers today at the Federal High Court in Abuja.
“Today’s protest, as a legitimate action, has been heavily repressed by policemen and the DSS that pick protesters into a fleet of waiting “police vans”. This is another example, in a hundred, of the contempt the regime of Major General Buhari (Rtd.) has for the Constitution or the Rule of Law.
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“It is this kind of thuggish disposition, which brings state’s force of coercion to bear on peaceful protesters, that represent the government as a Committee of Hoodlums, against every failed effort to pin such description on peaceful, unarmed protesters.
“We demand a public apology from the Nigeria police and DSS for this ridiculous and unprofessional action taking against Me Omoyele Sowore, other journalists and IPOB activists and we ask that proper disciplinary measures be taken on those security officers involved.
“It’s important for you to note that demonstrations and protests are a global phenomenon and are a part of the development of any society.”
