The human rights activists, Omoyele Sowore and\u00a0 Deji Adeyanju\u00a0 have met the Senior Pastor of Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Dr.Paul Enenche over the arrest of the five activists at the church premises for wearing #BuhariMustGo Tshirts\u00a0 on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The activists arrived the church around 3:00pm alongside\u00a0 their lawyer , Barrister Abubakar Marshal and had a close door meeting with the pastor where it was\u00a0 confirmed that the arrest was made by operatives\u00a0 of Department of State Service ( DSS ) but not the church security officials .<\/p>\n
Addressing journalists after meeting\u00a0 outside the church premises\u00a0 Adeyanju explained\u00a0 that the church have no hand in the entire incident\u00a0 that happened adding that the pastor informed them that he had taken steps as at 7:00am to ensure that the activists were released.<\/p>\n
He said the pastor confirmed\u00a0 that the activists commited no crime and that he has reached out to the DSS authority\u00a0 regarding the matter.<\/p>\n
According to Deji\u00a0 ” There is something\u00a0 the pastor said which i must reemphasis here that the reason why they did not like the fact that the activists came and were making the noise here\u00a0 that he doesn’t want this thing to be misconstrued that it is the church that is sponsorsoring the protest .<\/p>\n
While making clarification on the matter Sowore said the pastor denied the claims by some persons that the activists were trying to disrupt the church service.<\/p>\n
He said the pastor confirmed to them that he personally saw\u00a0 them when they came out for altar call that he was\u00a0 even excited\u00a0 seeing them and\u00a0 that it\u00a0 the claim\u00a0 was not true .<\/p>\n
Sowore said ” The came here and it is their right , I wore my own T Shirt to meet with him today my #BuhariMustGo T. Shirt . So there is nobody who can\u00a0 tell you what to wear to church or to wear to school except\u00a0 the school\u00a0 that have uniforms.<\/p>\n
” But we are adults\u00a0 and if we are tired of the system and we say the system must collapse it is our right to express ourselves freely.\u00a0 I told the pastor\u00a0 when he said he was not happy when the activists were trying.to protest within the premises\u00a0 that with the way things are going on more and more people\u00a0 will be wearing\u00a0 #BuhariMustGo\u00a0 T. Shirts to the church because people\u00a0 are tired of Buharii regime.<\/p>\n
” We have a respectable\u00a0 agreement\u00a0 and some disagreement\u00a0 over this issue but what is important\u00a0 to me and why I don’t\u00a0 want to drag this for too long is the release of these individuals from detention .<\/p>\n
” We are going to wait till evening\u00a0 because\u00a0 we requested that they should\u00a0 be released\u00a0 today\u00a0 ( Monday ) .\u00a0 Nobody\u00a0 knows their whereabouts . We don’t\u00a0 know whether they have been fed or\u00a0 they have been tortured .<\/p>\n
” Meanwhile there was a mild drama at the gate of the church when the activists were granting press interview when some overzealous policemen\u00a0 challenged them and pointed\u00a0 guns at the journalists who were conducting the interview.<\/p>\n
The situation\u00a0 led to heated arguments as gum wielding\u00a0 operatives\u00a0 insisted\u00a0 to know their mission\u00a0 for granting Interviews at the gate.<\/p>\n
The confusion which lasted for few minutes was brought\u00a0 under control\u00a0 when the activists\u00a0 maintained\u00a0 their ground that they have not violated any law with their action .
\nNOTE: The whereabouts of the five activists are still unknown and they have not been released as at the time of sending this update!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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