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By Steve Oko
Former Senate President, Senator Adolphus Wabara, has demanded the contiguous merchandise of all protesters arrested during Monday’s #FreeNnamdiKanuNow peaceful rally successful Abuja.
The elder statesman powerfully condemned the enactment of immoderate information operatives who fired teargas canisters astatine peaceful protesters.
Wabara besides frowned astatine the alleged manhandling of a writer covering the protestation whose camera was reportedly breached by immoderate overzealous information operatives.
Describing the intimidation and apprehension of peaceful protesters arsenic “a superior dent connected Nigeria’s planetary image”, Senator Wabara urged President Ahmed Tinubu to telephone the information agencies to order.
According to the erstwhile Senate President, the apprehension of Kanu’s younger brother, Prince Emmanuel Kanu, and lawyer, Chief Aloy Ejimakor; among others, volition lone aggravate the already tensed concern successful the South East.
Senator Wabara who argued that “it is the cardinal close of citizens to clasp peaceful protest”, said the constabulary are required to supply extortion for protesters, and not to clamp down connected them.
Citing the ongoing ‘No King Protest’ involving astir 7 cardinal radical successful the United States of America, “where determination are nary incidents of molestation oregon brutality”, Senator Wabara challenged the Nigeria information operatives to larn from their US counterparts.
The erstwhile Senate President accused the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC-led, national authorities which helium said, “is a merchandise of protests”, of utilizing intimidation and brute unit against dissenting voices.
He queried: Why is the APC that came to powerfulness done protests abruptly frightened of protests ? Muzzling dissenting voices and that absorption is simply a prelude to dictatorship. This is surely not the ideology we yearned for!
“The scars of#EndSARS volition ever stay a bittersweet memorial for the APC which exploited propaganda and protests to oust the PDP successful 2015”, Wabara added.
Senator Wabara who is the Chairman Board of Trustees, BoT, of the main absorption Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, regretted that “Nigeria nether the ticker of the APC, is accelerated sliding into dictatorship”.
He advised President Tinubu to, arsenic a begetter of the nation, see the increasing appeals for the merchandise of Nnamdi Kanu, “to trim hostility and reconstruct bid successful the South East region.”
According to him, if the President could pardon immoderate convicted criminals and fraudsters, determination is thing incorrect successful extending akin motion to Nnamdi Kanu.
Senator Wabara further argued that the continued merchandise of repentant terrorists and negotiations with equipped bandits, had made Kanu’s unconditional merchandise much compelling.
He advised President Tinubu to alternatively prosecute the protesters and look for a mode to politically resoluteness the Kanu equation alternatively of holding him down the bars successful perpetuity.
Senator Wabara who had earlier declared enactment for the protest, commended the protesters for their peaceful comportment contempt provocations, urging them to stay instrumentality -abiding.
He peculiarly commended Rights Activist, Omoleye Sowore, and different leaders of the protestation for their courageousness to basal up against injustice.
The erstwhile Senate President urged Nigerians to beryllium agreed against bare-faced injustice, disregard for the regularisation of law, and rascality of the ruling class, insisting that each conception of the state deserves just treatment.
The station Release Kanu’s brother, lawyer, different protesters present – Wabara tells police appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.
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