A member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) , Buba Galadima, has urged the President to order “his people” to unfreeze the bank accounts of #EndSARS protesters who were clamped down in the aftermath of the nationwide protests against various brutalities of various police officers.
Buba aladima speaking this Morning on Arise TV’s “The Morning Show” said that clampdown on #EndSARS campaigners by the Buhari regime is unconstitutional.
He further continued his statement stating that; “What the government has done is not right. It has no such right or powers to block bonafide Nigerians from travelling out of the country or from accessing their (bank) accounts. Blocked for what? What have they done?
“These young men were peacefully protesting the actions, omissions or commissions of government. Why do you, after you persuaded them or after agents of government allegedly attacked or killed them, follow this draconian disposition of blocking their accounts? That is not constitutional.
“I’m sending this message to Mr President whether he knows or he doesn’t know, let him be shown what I am saying. His people have no right to do what they are doing. Please, they should desist and unblock the accounts of these young people and allow them to carry on with their normal activities as Nigerians. You cannot harass them, we are in a democracy, we are not in a military regime.”
It was widely reported last week that the Central Bank of Nigeria obtained a court order to freeze the accounts of 19 persons and a firm involved in the #EndSARS protests accusing them of having possible links to terrorist activities, an allegation the protesters firmly denied.
The Nigeria Immigration Service had also prevented an #EndSARS protesters, Modupe Odele, from travelling out of the country.
Various International right groups and other rights groups have, however, criticised the Government’s stiff handling of the issue with many citing issues of infringement of various rights of the protesters involved.
