October 1: ‘Nigeria Not Yet Independent, We Are Under New Colonial Masters’, Says Sowore

Human rights activistic and erstwhile statesmanlike candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has said Nigeria was yet to attain existent independency contempt implicit six decades since its liberation from British assemblage rule.

Speaking successful a video released connected Nigeria’s Independence Day, Sowore argued that what the state celebrates annually was not the independency of the Nigerian radical but alternatively “the independency of the assemblage masters.”

“Nigeria’s independency is what we are pursuing. The 1 they are celebrating is the independency of the assemblage masters. Our ain independency has not arrived yet, that is wherefore annually we protestation connected Independence Day,” helium declared.

Sowore, who has been a vocal professional of successive governments, lamented that Nigerians were inactive subjected to oppression and hardship nether what helium described arsenic “new assemblage masters and enslaved masters.”

“We are inactive looking for independence, we privation to beryllium escaped from caller assemblage masters and enslaved masters. We are surviving successful apartheid,” helium said.

The activistic further questioned the authorities of governance successful Nigeria, noting that a federation wherever citizens enactment without entree to pensions oregon wherever dissenting voices are silenced cannot beryllium considered free.

“Any state wherever radical enactment and they cannot get pension is not an autarkic country, immoderate state wherever radical talk and they get clamped down oregon detained successful situation is not independent. That is what the assemblage masters did to us,” Sowore stressed.

Drawing a parallel betwixt Nigeria’s past assemblage laws and present-day clampdowns connected escaped expression, Sowore likened cybercrime laws to the notorious sedition laws erstwhile utilized by assemblage authorities to stifle opposition.

“The assemblage masters called what they called cybercrime present the sedition law. If you talk against authorities, you spell to prison, truthful we are inactive looking for independence,” Sowore added.