Groups want release of #EndBadGovernance protesters

Network of Abuja Left Groups have called for the release all of those arrested by security agents for being part of the #EndBadGovernance protests.

Other members arrested also include Micheal Lenin, Mosiu Sodiq, Angel, Comrade Opaoluwa and others.

In a joint statement by the Abuja Coordinator, Movement for a Socialist Alternative (MSA), Akande Daniel, Coordinator, Creative for Change, Omole Ibukun and Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, Gerald Katchy, said it is unjust trial of protesters in the Northern part of the country who were incited to violence by the security forces.

They also called for the prosecution of all security agents who shot and maimed peaceful #EndBadGovernance protesters.

According to them, no dialogue can be done with this government until all of these immediate demands to end repression are met.

They said for the interests of dialogue, they are calling on the Tinubu-led Federal Government to come to an open debate over these practical demands of the #EndBadGovernance protests.

โ€œMobilisers of the #EndBadGovernance protests across the country will put together a team to debate with a team of relevant government officials led by Tinubu himself on why our demands are practicable and affordable and the Tinubu government should not ignore them.

โ€œThis was what happened in the case of Lenin and Sodiq, Comrade Opaoluwa of the electricity workers union and Comrade Angel of the Advocates for a New Nigeria for their participation in the #EndBadGovernance protests.

โ€ In the case of Comrade Lenin and Sodiq, the joint team NIA, DSS and the Police trailed him home with his phone which they have illegally tapped and picked everyone in his apartment, including Sodiq, who was not part of the protest.

โ€œIn the case of Micheal Lenin who was one of the mobilisers for the protests in Abuja, he has been subjected to massive intelligence by the Nigerian state before being abducted in the middle of the night due to some phantom intelligence that because of his political name (Lenin), he is linked to the the Russian flags being raised in some part of the country by Nigerians who are justifiably and democratically calling for any available international intervention to prevent the repression of protests by the IMF/World Bank-backed regime in Nigeria.

โ€ Therefore, the attempt to link Comrade Micheal Lenin, the National Coordinator of the Youth Rights Campaign, to some form of foreign-sponsored terrorism because of his political name is not only far-fetched, but also farcical and laughable. Comrade Lenin was arrested in the most inhumane manner.

โ€œHe was blindfolded and handcuffed to the back for almost half of a day, and dump in a freezingly cold cell room where they are followed around by brutal and unstable police IRT officials, even when they want to use the toilet,โ€ they said.