Organisers of the nationwide hardship protest in Lagos have suspended their action to evaluate the progress of the exercise and restrategise.
But one of the organisers of the #EndBadGovernance protest in the state, Comrade Hassan Taiwo Soweto, vowed that the protesters would not succumb to threats from any security operatives.
Soweto spoke in reaction to a statement by the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Adegoke Fayoade, who said protest had been outlawed in any part of the state.
On Monday, Fayoade had in an interview, said the ongoing #EndBadGovernance nationwide protest had been suspended in view of President Bola Tinubu’s Sunday broadcast.
He said, “The organizers have decided to call off the protest. They said they are looking at the President meeting their demands. So in view of this, there will be no more gathering at the Gani Fawahimi Freedom Park at Ojota or anywhere in the state. Any of such gathering is now unlawful and illegal and if such gathering exists, we are going to apply the full weight of the law.
“Now that the protest has been called off, we are going to withdraw our men from Ojota, but we will leave skeletal unit on the ground so that they will not allow anyone to gather here from this moment.”
But Soweto in his reaction to the CP’s statement, said that that protesters would not succumb to threats from any security operatives.
He said the group decided to take Tuesday as off-day to allow it to restrategise.
He said the decision to take the day off was reached on Monday at the protest ground, noting that the break did not mean the protest had been called off.
“The constitution allows for peaceful protest. We decided to take the day off to enable us access progress and to also restrategize. We won’t bow to any idle threat. We will make announcement as to what next before the close of work today,” he added.
