Illegal IGP Egbetokun Will Destroy Nigerian Police With Egregious Human Rights Violations If We Don’t Act — Sowore Warns
The former presidential candidate, in a post on his social media handle, said that the IGP must be stopped before he completely destroys the Nigerian police.
Human rights activist and convener of #RevolutionNow Movement, Omoyele Sowore, has said that the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, is illegally occupying the seat of IGP and that his mission is to destroy the Nigerian police.
Sowore, a former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2023 general elections, said that Egbetokun has deliberately been engaging in egregious violations of human rights since he was appointed and his tenure illegally extended by Tinubu.
The former presidential candidate, in a post on his social media handle, said that the IGP must be stopped before he completely destroys the Nigerian police.
Sowore wrote, “This illegal IG of @PoliceNG, Kayode Egbetokun, has engaged in egregious violations of human rights since @officialABAT appointed him and illegally extended his tenure.
“He was the person who ordered the murders of #EndBadGovernance protesters, he orchestrated the prosecution of minors for treason, he has assisted powerful elites in arresting and jailing their critics, including @delefarotimi whom he abducted from Lagos to Ekiti on behalf of Chief Afe Babalola, SAN.
“Speed Darlington, a musician is languishing in detention because he had a beef with @burnaboy, @IjeleSpeaks2 has spent months in prison now because IGP Egbetokun connived with Evang.
“Chukwuebuka Obi to silence him, and now this lady, Olamide, had to be flown to Abuja because she made Facebook posts about the IGP and @Princemoye1, who’s had personal issues with her in Ogun State.
“IGP Kayode Egbetokun will destroy the Nigeria Police if we don’t act now.”
SaharaReporters had reported that the Nigeria Police Force on Saturday transferred the female activist, Abiodun Olamide Thomas, who was “abducted” from her home in Lagos State by lawless police personnel to the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), Abuja.
A human rights advocacy organisation, the Take-It-Back Movement (TIB) which made this known in a post on its social media handle said that Thomas was transported by illegally constituted Nigeria Police Force Courier Service to the Murtala Mohammed International Airport en-route Abuja.
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The organisation had said that the activist was moved to Abuja to face an illegal trial “sponsored by President Bola Tinubu through FPRO, Olumuyiwa Adejobi and the IGP.”
TIB while reiterating its demand for immediate and unconditional release of Thomas wrote, “Human rights activist Olamide Thomas abducted by Nigerian police is now unlawfully flown to FCID Abuja!
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“We condemn this blatant disregard for human rights & demand her immediate release!”
