…dispatches ‘Pro bono’ lawyer for immediate action
By Ime Silas
Lagos-based Activist and Human Rights Lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, Esq. has called on the authorities Nigeria Police Force to order for immediate release of one Mr. Okpe Kingsley Adegwu who was arrested last Sunday in the afternoon.
Effiong who stated this in his Press Statement tagged “PROTEST: ILLEGAL ARREST ALERT”, regretted that the arrest of Adegwu came barely twenty-four hours after the Inspector-General of Police had declared that ‘no peaceful protester has been arrested by the police in the country’.
The fierce lawyer said “We have been alerted that one Mr. Okpe Kingsley Adegwu, a comedian and an online content creator, was arrested on Sunday afternoon (28th July 2024) at Ikate, Elegushi gate by the police.
He was arrested while walking and carrying a placard with the inscription: “NIGERIANS SUFFERING IS TOO MUCH. TINUBU DO SOMETHING”.
He has been in the custody of the Lagos Police Command Headquarters, CP Special Squad 1, since Sunday.
This information is reaching us less than 24 hours after the Inspector General of Police declared categorically during our meeting with him on Tuesday that no peaceful protester has been arrested by the police in the country.
The IGP said any report to the contrary was “fake news””.
While describing the arrest as unacceptable, Effiong continued “We are calling on the police authorities to immediately release Okpe Adegwu. We have been told that the police is planning to detain him till the end of the nationwide protest.
This is unacceptable and illegal.
A member of our team of pro bono lawyers is currently at the Lagos State Police Command in respect of this case”.