A civil society group, the Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) has demanded for the immediate release of the Nigerian afrobeat singer, Seun Kuti, from detention of the Nigeria Police Force, saying that he has fulfilled his bail conditions. The group, noting that Kuti’s trial is politically motivated, also demanded an appropriate reprimand for the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin and other officers who, according to the YRC, had violated the law in their attempt to nail Seun.
The convener of the #EndMalariaInNigeria movement, Francis Nwapa, has claimed that the slap given by an Afrobeat musician, Seun Kuti, to a police officer is one of many reactions Nigerians have been waiting to show against police brutality in the country. Nwapa who stated this in a release on Wednesday morning, narrated an instance of torture he had experienced from the police.
Despite a series of intervention programmes against the malaria epidemic in recent times, Nigeria is apparently not winning the war against the deadly scourge, with an estimated sum of N2.04 trillion still routinely spent on treatments yearly.
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A socialist revolutionary activist, Francis Nwapa, has said that the leadership of the Labour Party has been hijacked by bureaucrats and Rightwing elements that made the party not different from bourgeois political parties. Nwapa writing on his Francis Nwapa Watch lambasted the party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi and other leaders of the party for fixing its governorship nomination form fee at N15 million.