Yoruba Nation Rally: Police 'killed' two of our members - Akintoye

The police said the Yoruba Nation rally was not peaceful.

The chairman of Yoruba Self Determination Movement , Banji Akintoye, has claimed that the rally scheduled by its members was “peaceful” until the police “approached” them and killed two members of the group.shortly after the rally turned violent on Monday.

“Our methods have always been peaceful, peaceful rally, no weapons, no violence of any kind,” he said. “Those are the conditions upon which the young men gathered this morning to carry out a rally. Even before they had settled down, as they were arriving at the center where they wanted to carry out the rally, the Nigeria police approached them and started shooting.”“The right to self- determination is the right of the Yoruba people just as it is the right of every nationality in the world.”

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