Nigerian College Students, Williams, Chukwuocha Arrested For EndSARS Protests Rot In Lagos Prison Since 2020 | Sahara Reporters
Nigerian College Students, Williams, Chukwuocha Arrested For #EndSARS Protests Rot In Lagos Prison Since 2020SaharaReporters in August 2022 reported that Dare was arrested by personnel of the Nigeria Police Force from Sabo Police Station in Lagos during the #EndSARS protest in October 2020 on his way back from a studio where he went for his routine video music recording with his course mate.
Dare, a student of Federal College of Education, Lagos, believes that his arrest was connected to his active participation in the #EndSARS protest where he said that he actively participated in and shared many videos of the protest on his Twitter page and a WhatsApp TV he created with about 20,000 contacts including police officers.
The DPO, according to him, threatened “To show me what the police are capable of doing. That he will send us to where we don't like.” “They didn't allow us to see our statement. They wrote it for us. We didn't write our statement ourselves. We didn't know what was inside our statement.” With the police absence from the court and the prosecutor’s failure to present his witness, “the court adjourned the case to December 14, 2022.
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