, Commissioner of Police pleads to call off peaceful awareness rally, Organisers #FreeTheAkoguns Suspend Solidarity walk -

Commissioner of Police pleads to call off peaceful awareness rally, Organisers #FreeTheAkoguns Suspend Solidarity walk

•Organisers puts solidarity walk on hold; to resume on Wednesday
•Plan of state government to infiltrate protest leaks to organisers
•State government to also use police to mete out Akogun treatment to protesters

We’ve been duly informed of frantic efforts by the state government to disrupt our peaceful solidarity and awareness walk, which was scheduled to hold tomorrow, Monday, the 17th day of October.

Our intel from the government intimated us of plans to infiltrate our peaceful selves with hoodlums, with a order to harass people and destroy properties, with the ultimate aim of blaming it on the planners of the solidarity rally.

Thereafter, they intend to use the police to arrest, detain, and use the “Akoguns treatment” on peaceful protesters. Just as seen on Friday, where peaceful protesters were tear-gassed and shot at, we believe in the possibility.

This was further confirmed by us, as the Office of the Kwara state Commissioner of Police have been sending different persons to plead with us to call off the solidarity walk, including putting fear into the distressed parents of the victims – Akogun brothers.

The same Office of the Kwara state Commissioner of Police, also put a call to our lawyer, Lanre Abdul Esq., urging him to talk to us, so that we can put off the protest, a request which majority is against, but for the passionate plea of the parents of the Akogun brothers.

To this point end, we are putting on hold the solidarity walk for tomorrow (Monday), pending the show of good faith on the part of the state government and the police, but we should continue with our mobilisation for Wednesday.

Our resolve to make sure that justice is served remains unwavered, our believe that an injury to one is an injury to all remains sacrosanct, and we use this medium to warn all state actors to avoid using naked state powers against its citizens, as it will be resisted by all and sundry!

FreeTheAkoguns

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