Nigerian lawyer and activist Deji Adeyanju has successfully secured the release of 26 individuals, including #EndBadGovernance protesters and journalists, who were detained by security agents across the country.
The lawyer made this known in an exclusive interview with Vanguard, he revealed that his team had successfully secured the release of 26 #EndBadGovernance protesters and journalists detained by security agents across Nigeria. He further stated that they are working tirelessly to ensure the release of the remaining protesters in custody.
He said: “We have been able to release 26 protesters including six journalists from the Nigeria Police Force and Department of State Service, DSS, in Abuja.
“Majority of the protesters released from the cells of the Police and DSS were males, we only got two females arrested and released but other persons were males and were released and all of these were released unconditionally.”
On the number of those still behind bars, he said: “We have about 16 more protesters we know of. These are protesters in Abuja but there are 100s detained in Kano. In Lagos, Port Harcourt, Kaduna, Jigawa, Others we have so many comrades detained but we cannot ascertain the number.”
He added that the six journalists that were arrested have also been released.
“We have released a lot of journalists that were arrested as well, and they were six in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, and Kaduna.
“All the journalists that we know of have been released. The last one was released four days ago, he was a support staff of a journalist.”
On the protesters still detained across the country, he said: “We are optimistic that the security agencies should be reasonable and release everybody because they have no right to detain anybody over protest.”
Meanwhile, he said they were going to issue a 48-hour ultimatum to release all protesters and if refused, they were going to sue them.
Further, he said: “The President should mandate and direct that security agencies to release all protesters in custody unconditionally, and it is an irredeemable minimum the President should do almost immediately.”
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