No fewer than 69 #RevolutionNow protesters were on Wednesday arrested by security agencies in the Federal Capital Territory [FCT] and Osogbo, the Osun State capital.
WuzupNigeria reports that 62 protesters were rounded up and arrested in different parts of the FCT while seven were detained in Osogbo.
The personnel comprising soldiers, policemen, Air Force, Federal Road Safety Corps [FRSC] and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps [NSCDC] officers picked up the citizens at Julius Berger, Wuse and Unity Fountain, Maitama, and whisked them away.
The protesters were believed to have been taken before a mobile court for allegedly breaching the COVID-19 restrictions order.
The citizens had turned up at the unity fountain on Wednesday in commemoration of the first anniversary of the #RevolutionNow protest in which some Nigerians demanded better governance from the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) on August 5, 2019.
But while some activists were addressing the crowd, the Joint Task Force on Enforcement of COVID-19 Restrictions swooped on them, forced them to lie on the ground and whisked them away.
A co-convener of the protest, Deji Adeyanju, said many protesters were harassed and assaulted by the security operatives.
In Osogbo, seven #RevolutionNow protesters, led by Olawale Bakare aka ‘Mandate’, armed with placards converged on Correspondents’ chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists and informed journalists that wanted to address them.
In Ondo, some youths took to the street of Ore in Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State on Wednesday to participate in the #RevolutionNow protest ongoing across major cities in the country
The protesters, who carried placards demanded a better society and improved welfare for citizens from the administration of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd)
Armed security men were seeing positioning themselves at strategic locations within the area that the protest was taken place, to forestall breakdown of law and order.
The protesters, singing various solidarity songs, were also calling for the people of the state to rise up and fight for their rights.
