JUST IN: DSS allegedly arrests activist over call to continue protest

One of the organisers of the current protest against bad governance and hardship in Nigeria, Michael Lenin, has allegedly been arrested by agents of the Department of State Services, DSS.

Lenin was reportedly picked up at his home in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, on Monday at around 2am.

Director of Mobilisation for the Take It Back Movement Damilare Adenola revealed the arrest to reporters, claiming the DSS had raided Lenin’s home.

“Lenin has been arrested by the DSS. He was picked up during a raid on his house around 2 am.

“He was arrested in the presence of his family. We are demanding his immediate and unconditional release“, he said.

Lenin reportedly criticised President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Sunday broadcast, claiming that the president “is out of touch with reality in the country” based on his speech to the nation.

“We wish to express our sadness and deep disappointment at the latest broadcast by President Tinubu which is his first address to the nation on the #EndBadGovernance protests, after over three weeks since Nigerians started mobilising to take to the streets and after scores of dead protesters and assaulted journalists from the first three days of the protests.

“Many had requested that the President should just address the nation when the protest was being mobilised and when it started to escalate, but most of us did not know that the President would only justify state violence on protesters and journalists while dismissing the demands of the protesters whenever he decides to speak.

“This, plus the failed attempt to co-opt the progressive and radical language of the protests only shows how much President Tinubu is out of touch with the masses.

“We, therefore, call on Nigerians to come out in large numbers to continue these protests on Monday until our demands are met. The two-pronged approach of violence and propaganda has failed.

“The violence and repressions are just attempts to silence and control us, and the propaganda cannot sway or fool us,” he said.

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