The Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani has said the Police and other sister agencies don’t have the powers to stop the proposed protest being spear-headed by popular musician, Innocent Idibia, popularly known as 2face slated for February 6.
TheNewsGuru.com recalls that the popular singer had recently announced that he would be leading a nationwide protest against the alleged “obnoxious policies” of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
Following his declaration, Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Fatai Owoseni said the protest cannot hold in Lagos as the state police force does have the manpower to guarantee the security of lives at such protest.
The commissioner’s statement has however drew the attention of irate Nigerians who said the police have no right to disapprove the protest.
Reacting to Owoseni’s threat, Shehu who took to his twitter handle on Friday said it was wrong for the police to refuse Tuface permit to hold a peaceful protest.
He wrote: “It’s simply wrong for the police to deny or refuse permit to 2Face to organise a peaceful protest. Protest is a right in democracy.
“There is no society as inflammable as the one inhabited by a people with little or nothing to lose.”
Also speaking on a monitored television programme, spokesperson to the Acting President, Laolu Akande said the presidency is not going to stop people from expressing their fundamental human rights.
In his words: “Presidency is not going to stop people from expressing their fundamental human rights.
“People have the right to protest. Whoever they want to support or oppose is their right.
‘”Government is not in the business of countering any protest.”
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