DSS Arrests #EndBadGovernance Protest Leader, Michael Lenin in Abuja

Posted by Lawal Munirst on August 5, 2024 0

Lenin was picked up by the DSS around 2 am on Monday at his residence in the Apo area of the FCT. Adenola said, “Lenin has been arrested by the DSS. He was picked up during a raid on his house around 2 am.

Michael Lenin has been arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services.

Lenin before his arrest was one of the leaders of the ongoing EndBadGovernance protests in the Federal Capital Territory.

According to Punch, Lenin was picked up by the DSS around 2 am on Monday at his residence in the Apo area of the FCT. Adenola said, “Lenin has been arrested by the DSS. He was picked up during a raid on his house around 2 am.

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

The DSS spokesperson, Peter Afunanya, could not be reached at the time of filing this report.

Speaking with our correspondent, the Director of Mobilisation, Take It Back Movement, Damilare Adenola, said Lenin’s house was raided by the DSS.

He alleged that the DSS also assaulted him during his arrest.

Lenin, who is the National Coordinator of the Youth Rights Campaign, was one of the organizers who spoke at a press briefing expressing disappointment with President Bola Tinubu’s broadcast on Sunday.

At the briefing, he said the President’s broadcast demonstrated that he is out of touch with reality in the country.

He said, “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 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 decided 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.“

Lenin, however, said the protest would continue massively on Monday, calling on the citizens to come out in large numbers.

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