Popular comedian and social media influencer, Debo Adebayo, better known as Mr Macaroni, has been arrested by operatives of the Lagos State police command over the ongoing #OccupyLekkiTollGate protest.
The protest was planned to kick against the decision of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry allowing the Lekki Concession Company (LCC) to reopen the Lekki toll gate.
On Saturday, Adebayo was arrested after the police told him “we don’t want you here”.
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In a Live Instagram feed before his phone and those of other arrested protesters were seized, the comedian lamented that “Lekki is under military rule.”
“Na military regime? If na military, make we know sey na military, so make everybody dey hide.”he said in a mixture of English and Pidgin in one of the video clips.
“So they are collecting our phones right now. We are not fighting them,” he said in another clip, before his phone was seized by the police personnel.
Mr Macaroni and many others have been arrested at #Lekkitollgate just for excising their fundamental human right. Let's know if we are in military regime ffs💔#EndBadGovernanceInNigeria pic.twitter.com/15NJRJquue
— SALT (@fhesty_Gee) February 13, 2021
The Federal Government and the Police had warned against the protest, vowing to deal with anyone caught involving in such demonstration.
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“Permit me to state in clear terms that organising any protest in furtherance of the recent violent and destructive #EndSARS protest will be counterproductive to the ongoing series of inquiries and investigations into many cases related to the #EndSARS violence and the present security situation of the state,” the state commissioner of police, Hakeem Odumosu, had said.
“The Lagos state, its people and the Nigerian nation at large are still groaning (in pains) for the aftermath of the last #EndSARS violence that left many lives and properties lost. It is therefore not reasonable to allow same to repeat itself in the state.”
Over 20 protesters have been arrested so far at the tollgate.
#OccupyLekkiTollGate: 10 protesters, Juwon, Kehinde, Kiara, and others had been arrested by officers of the @PoliceNG at the Lekki TollGate a few minutes ago. They're currently being taken to an unknown destination in a Black Maria. We must all support this courageous youths! pic.twitter.com/IzsXpwrbNC
— Abiodun Sanusi (@AbiodunSanusi01) February 13, 2021
Coordinators #OccupyLekkiTollgate, Kunle Ajayi said many of his people have been arrested by the police and put in a Black Maria and are about to be taken to an unknown destination.
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