No fewer than 30 #RevolutionNow protesters have been arrested in Lagos state, as they stormed the streets to express their displeasure over bad governance in Nigeria.
The protesters marched from the streets of Ojota to Maryland in Lagos, chanting anti-government songs before security operatives scooped on them.
The Lagos state police command yesterday banned rallies and protests in the state ahead of the October 1 Independence Day celebration.
The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, CP Hakeem Odumosu, instructed officers and men of the command to disallow any unlawful societies, under whatever disguise, from staging rallies or protests within the state on Thursday, 1st October 2020.
Reading the riot act during a security meeting with the Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers, and Heads of Department at the conference room of the Lagos State Police Headquarters in GRA, Ikeja on Wednesday September 30, Commissioner of Police Hakeem Odumosu instructed officers and men of the command to disallow any unlawful societies under whatever disguise, from staging rallies or protests within the state on Thursday, 1st October 2020.
