#OcuppyLekkiTollGate: Defiant protesters arrested as Defence Minister threatens use of force
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By Henry Ojelu, Kingsley Omonobi, Bose Adelaja& Kennedy Mbele
Despite warnings by the Federal Government, youths, yesterday, went ahead with the #OcuppyLekkiTollGate protest against the reopening of the Lekki Toll Gate.
Though the protest didn’t witness a massive turnout of participants, a handful of people protested after the initial arrest of an unspecified number of persons who had converged for the exercise.
As of 7:45 am yesterday, the men of the Nigeria Police, who were deployed to the scene a day earlier, were seen arresting some youths who had just arrived at the toll plaza.
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It was a sombre drama, yesterday, as security operatives led by officers and men of the Nigeria Police Force descended on unarmed peaceful protesters. The Police deployed force stripping, clubbing and dehumanising the protesters. Not done with the violation of their rights and persons, the Police arrested dozens of the peaceful #OccupyLekki Tollgate protesters. x
The aggrieved youths carried out their threat of occupying the facility as a way of expressing their dissatisfaction with the decision of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry, which gave the nod for the reopening of the Lekki tollgate operated by the Lekki Concession Company (LCC), last week Saturday.
CDHR, others condemn arrests of Lekki protesters
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By Bose Adelaja
The Center for Human and Socio-economic Rights CHSR, has on Saturday, condemned the arrests of some protesters who were arrested at Lekki Tollgate Plaza, the scheduled venue of the #OccupyLekki Protests.
Also, the human right body has called for the immediate and unconditional release of the protesters.
The protesters under the aegis of #OccupyLekki were arrested on Saturday by the Policemen deployed to the protest ground to maintain law and order.
A statement signed by its National President, Comrade Alex Omotehinse and General Secretary, Comrade Ewajane Osowo said about 10 #OccupyLekki protesters were arrested so far.