#EndSARS: Amid Hostility, Aisha Yesufu, Sowore, Seun Kuti, Others Set To Launch New Movement

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Barring any clampdown by the Nigeria Police Force, some of the promoters of #EndSARS protests are planing to launch a movement on Wednesday in Lagos and Abuja.

#RevolutionNow proponent, Mr. Omoyele Sowore; activist, Aisha Yesufu and popular musician, Seun Kuti have indicated of their plans to stage such a movement in the cities against the directive by the Police force in Lagos banning any semblance of protests or gatherings.

Sowore tweeted, ‘it is a generational responsibility! @MBuhari regime cannot keep Nigerian youths in the cage forever! #RevolutionNow’.

Also, Seun Kuti raised
an alarm that police have threatened to shut down the New
Afrika Shrine should he proceed with his program, tagged: ‘#EndSARS Movement: Lessons and Tasks’ which was scheduled to hold at the New Afrika Shrine on Tuesday.

Seun vowed to go ahead with other promoters to launch ‘THE MOVEMENT OF THE PEOPLE”.

The son of Afrobeat legend, Fela Kuti, noted that a letter from the Nigeria Police Force, Alausa Division was sent to the New Afrika Shrine yesterday following his planned program to reflect on the gains of the youth agitation– #EndSARS protests — against police brutality and to a large extent, bad governance in the country.

The letter read in part, “You are hereby warned to suspend such gathering as any infraction that may emerge from this gathering will be tag a deliberate action to sabotage the transition and restoration of the peace in Lagos State by the Lagos State Government and the Nigeria Police Force.”

Seun who reacted to the threat via his social media handle said, “So yesterday the government called my eldest sister @yeniakuti and threatened to close the shrine if I hold my event there tomorrow and also sent a letter to back it up. I respect my families decision not to hold the event as it is but I will still go ahead with all the other organizations to launch THE MOVEMENT OF THE PEOPLE tomorrow and start our political resistance to the tyranny of this oppressive regime.

“This is a meeting, just a meeting of organizations and they are basically banning the right of association. Why are they afraid of the people organising? What is democratic about this act? The last time we tried to launch the government quickly called curfew and this time they have used threat but you can’t stop the will of thepeople. #getthesax #liberationgeneration #wenodoagain #endoppression.”

'Dotun Akintomide
'Dotun Akintomide
'Dotun Akintomide's journalism works intersect business, environment, politics and developmental issues. Among a number of local and international publications, his work has appeared in the New York Times. He's a winner of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Award. Currently, the Online Editor at The New Diplomat, Akintomide has produced reports that uniquely spoke to Nigeria's experience on Climate Change issues. When Akintomide is not writing, volunteering or working on a media project, you can find him seeing beautiful sites like the sandy beaches that bedecked the Lagos coastline.

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