Revolution Now: Intersociety Tells President Buhari What To Do To Sowore, Protesters

Few days after the arrest of Omoyele Sowore, the Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law has charged the Federal Government to order the DG of the Department of State Services, to release the Publisher of Sahara Reporters and others with immediate effect, in the interest of democracy.

Intersociety in a statement through its leader Mr Emeka Umeagbalasi stated that by denying people of their civil space, the Police, Army and DSS are pushing Nigerians to the wall.

According to the statement, “The security agencies are also pushing Nigerians to the point of radical self-help or underground radicalisation, capable of quadrupling and escalating the country’s criminal enterprises or industries.”

“We regret that the same government that is sponsoring by proxy, anti-Amnesty International protests can turn around to declare dissenting street protesters as persona non grata in Nigeria and their protests as ‘terrorism’ or ‘treason”

The group further stated that by handling Nigerian criminals with soft hands and treating the law-abiding citizens the way, the police, Army and DSS are licensing all Nigerians to become criminals and lawless.

Intersociety stated that this while turns the country into a jungle where only the fittest survives.

“If this is allowed, then rifles in the possession of these daft security agencies will become toys or mere boxes of fire matches.”

“The Nigerian democracy has speedily moved from its daily deterioration and degeneration in present time to hourly same, with what remains as its infinitesimal semblances disappearing without traces.”

“To add salt to injury, the Army, the Police and the DSS have now unveiled themselves as official enemies of democracy in Nigeria.”

“This they now share in common with the country’s malevolent and conscienceless political actors and the earthly paradised religious leaders as well as their foot-soldiers in the civil society including lawyers, activists, mainstream media practitioners and bloggers.”