A group of protesters, led by activist cum entertainer, Charles Oputa, also known as Charly Boy, yesterday, stormed the streets of Abuja to kick against President Muhammadu Buhari’s perceived inaction in the face of multiple graft allegations involving some top officials of his administration.
The protest was relatively peaceful as the police and the Department of State Service, DSS, monitored the activities of the group, in contrast to what transpired in August when security men dispersed them with attack dogs, water cannons and teargas.
Addressing journalists during the protest, Deji Adeyanju, convener of civil society group, Concerned Nigerians, said they were on the streets to ask the President pertinent questions about the seriousness and insincerity of his anti-graft war.
He said:
“If President Buhari once ordered the raiding of the homes of judges suspected to be tainted with corruption and also directed the handcuffing and dragging to court of alleged corrupt members of the opposition, we demand similar treatment for the suspended SGF, Babachir Lawal and other top government officials.”
Summing up the speeches by co-conveners of the protest, Charly Boy maintained that the group would not back down on its call for the President to act or quit office if he could not fight corruption without minding whose ox was gored.
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