The Nigeria Police Force on Monday,November 9,2020 transferred a campaigner of the #EndSARS movement, Eromosele Adene, from Lagos to Abuja for calling a protest on Saturday.
His sister, Onomene Adene, on Monday said she suspects the move was done because Lagos is the epicentre of the protest and her brother’s detention could spark another protest in the state.
Eromosele, who is a musician and a civil rights activist, was on Saturday, arrested by 15 policemen at his home located in the Ikeja area of Lagos State.
He was subsequently taken before the Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, and then transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti before being taken to Area F, Ikeja.
However, his sister told our correspondent that on getting to the Area F command on Monday, her brother’s lawyer was informed that Eromosele had been moved.
She said, “He has been moved to Abuja and I think they decided to move him because they would not be able to control the outrage in Lagos”.
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, had earlier on, told all police formations across the country to ensure that there were no more protests, a move which activists say is at variance with the constitution.
It was learnt that Eromosele and some others had planned to hold a protest on Saturday and had distributed fliers containing his phone number.
Policemen were said to have got hold of the flier, tracked his phone, and arrested him at his house.
Onomene said, “He was detained for over 48 hours without bail. He was first taken to the CP’s office in Lagos, then moved to Panti. When the noise started, he was moved to Area F and on Monday morning, when the lawyer visited the place, we were told he had been moved”.
When contacted on the telephone, the Police Public Relations Officer in Lagos State, Muyiwa Adejobi, said he would find out what was happening.
The Federal Government had since last week, begun a clampdown on persons involved in the #EndSARS protest.
The Central Bank of Nigeria had issued directives to banks to freeze 20 bank accounts belonging to persons involved in the protest while the Nigeria Immigration Service stopped one of such protesters, Modupe Odele, from leaving the country and seized her passport.
