#EndSARS: Activist condemns Saturday violent attack on Governor Oyetola, backs protest

A renowned human rights activist, Comrade Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman,has
strongly condemned the penultimate Saturday violent attack on the life
of Osun State Governor, Alhaji Isiaka Gboyega Oyetola, thanking God
for saving the life of the Governor during the violent attack,urging
the Governor to ensure that the government fish out those thugs that
earlier attacked the peaceful protesters before Saturday violent.

He described the both violent attacks on Governor Oyetola and
protesters as barbaric and primitive,saying that the attack was the
handiwork of hoodlums that used the opportunity of peaceful EndSARS
protest to perpetrate evils by also looting some stores at Osun Mall
earlier before the violent attack on Oyetola and his entourage to the
scene of the protest.

Comrade Sulaiman who declared his to total support to the protest
against the Police brutality and extra-judicial killings of the men of
Special Anti-Robbery Squad(SARS), stating that men of disbanded SARS
had wrecked havoc to the innocent citizens of the Country than good,
calling on the government to listen to the cry of the masses on total
end of SARS instead of changing of name to SWAT,adding that the
government should embark on total reform of the Nigeria Police
Force(NPF) in accordance with democratic principles.

This was contained in a signed personal statement by Comrade
Sulaiman,which copies were made available to newsmen on Tuesday, he
condoned with the families of the two persons that lost their lives on
the faithful Saturday in different two locations in the State capital
in connection with the protest but not connected to the violent attack
on Governor Oyetola, praying to God to give the State and families of
deceased the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.

The rights activist also called on the State Government to fish out
the earlier attackers of the EndSARS peaceful protesters at Olaiya
junction,few days to the violent attack on the Governor,saying that as
the State was looking for the hoodlums that attack the Governor at the
scene of the protest,they should not forget the attackers of the
protesters too no matter whose ox is gored.

While sympathizing with the good people and government of Osun State,
Sulaiman urged the Coordinator of the peaceful protest of EndSARS in
the State, not to allow the hoodlums and people with ulterior motive
to hijack the peaceful protest from them and the protesters should be
ready to dialogue with the government to pressure for their home
demands for betterment of our society.

Sulaiman who is Executive Chairman, Centre for Human Rights and Social
Justice(CHRSJ), advised the State government not to restrict the
mandate of Judicial Panel of Inquiry to be set up to investigate all
the police brutality and extra-judicial killings of the disbanded
Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), stressing that the officers and men
of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) had inflicted more
injuries to the people of the State and Nigeria as a whole.

It would be recalled that on Saturday, Governor Oyetola who was on
solidarity visit to the venue of the protest at Popular Olaiya
junction, Osogbo, was violently attacked by some  hoodlums before
Governor Oyetola was narrowly escaped at the scene.

Signed:

COMRADE ADENIYI ALIMI SULAIMAN,
(Revolutionary Alfa),
Executive Chairman, Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ),
+2348038591504/+2348022697573