“Blatant disregard for people’s rights and outright disobedience or selective obedience of the rule of law are sore thumbs that have blighted his administration from inception.” Nigeria Buhari Revolution Sowore
When the convener of #RevolutionNow protests, Omoyele Sowore, was arrested by agents of the Department of State Services , it was for his mobilising a critical mass of Nigerians across various platforms in readiness for protests against what he termed bad governance. The protests were scheduled for kick-start on August 5, 2019, across the country.
The constitution of Nigeria provides that anybody who is arrested by the police shall be taken to court within 24 or 48 hours. The law also provides that before you search or arrest a Nigerian, you must obtain a court order from a Federal High court. If any security agent must seize a citizen’s phone, the law provides that such agent must get a court order because the right to liberty, to the privacy of home and correspondence, are constitutionally entrenched.
The recent anti-protest moves come on the heels of Buhari administration’s extension of the ambit of the Terrorism Prevention Act to cover individuals and organisations that are critical of official policies or perceived marginalisation within the country. Falana said, “The President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration is taking us back to the pre-independence era. The last time we had this kind of harassment of Nigerians over the use of the word revolution was in 1948 when members of the Zikist movement demanded a revolution to end ethnic politics.
The renowned lawyer noted that the last rally organised by leaders of All Progressives Congress in Abuja in 2014 was against insecurity in the country. He wondered why a government being run by APC would now be intolerant of Nigerians protesting against insecurity and poor governance. He stressed that government institutions must respect the right of Nigerians who wish to deploy demonstrative means to question its policies and programmes, decrying the recent attempt by security operatives to stop a pro-democracy gathering in Lagos as a display of intolerance by the Buhari government.
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