The Inspector-Common of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun has dismissed the accusations of making an attempt to rewrite the structure by requesting for the small print of the leaders of all protesting teams forward of the nationwide protest scheduled for August 1, sustaining that the request is inside the police’s job description.
The police chief was reacting to accusations made by an activist, Mr. Deji Adeyanju and others the place they alleged that the IGP is trying to rewrite the structure by requesting for the small print of organisers and leaders of the deliberate nationwide protests.
The Nigeria Police maintained that request for the small print of protests’ organisers and their leaders together with the schedules of their protests detailing location, interval, routes and different info is an ordinary process to facilitate efficient communication, guarantee the protection of all members, and forestall any illegal actions.
The police additionally stated it’s important to know the planners of such meeting (protests) in every state as permitting faceless teams to function unchecked might jeopardise the peace and stability of the nation.
Pressure Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi stated, “The Nigeria Police Pressure hereby addresses the latest accusations made by one activist, Deji Adeyanju, and others through varied fora, alleging that the IGP is trying to rewrite the structure by requesting the small print of the organizers and leaders of the deliberate nationwide protests.
“It is important to make clear that the IGP has by no means denied the constitutional proper of each citizen to freedom of affiliation and expression, however has reasonably, at each level, emphasised that the appropriate is that to peaceable meeting and expression. Additionally, the Nigeria Police holds the duty to make sure that any exercise, together with protests, doesn’t pose a menace to nationwide safety.
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“On this sensible, requesting the small print of protest organisers and their leaders and the schedules of their protests which embrace location, interval, routes and so on, is an ordinary process to facilitate efficient communication, guarantee the protection of all members, and forestall any illegal actions.
“It’s also very important for Deji Adeyanju to notice that within the curiosity of defence, public security, public order, public morality or public well being; or for the aim of defending the rights and freedom of different individuals as enshrined in Part 45 (1) of the 1999 Structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, this request by the IGP is just not misplaced.”
Adejobi additional careworn that figuring out the planners in every states was important “as permitting faceless teams to function unchecked might jeopardise the peace and stability of the nation, and depart us with pains, sorrows and tears as skilled within the 2020 violent EndSARS protests.
“If organised labour and different recognised our bodies had been concerned, it will have offered a extra structured and safer atmosphere for such public protests.
“Whereas the police urges Mr. Adeyanju and different organisers to not mislead Nigerians. We due to this fact name on them to affix fingers in working collectively to uphold the safety and well-being of our nation.”
