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#EndSARS: ‘This is not fair’, Lagos Panel Member Reacts To Freezing of Accounts
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
- Oduala and her colleague, Temitope Majekodunmi, had, on Saturday, boycotted a sitting of the Lagos panel in protest against CBN’s freezing of several accounts linked to the #EndSARS movement.
- The apex bank obtained a court order to freeze Oduala’s account and those of 19 others till January 2021.
One of the promoters of the #EndSARS demonstrations, Rinu Oduala, has said that the recent clampdown by the Federal Government on #EndSARS campaigners as an unfair practice in a democracy.
Oduala, who is also a member of the Lagos State Panel of Judicial Inquiry probing cases of police brutality and the alleged shooting of #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki toll gate, said the recent action of the Central Bank of Nigeria was a betrayal of the supposed peace-making efforts of the government.
According to her, the government agreed that it was important to reform the Nigeria Police Force but has refused to honour its promises and now targets the people who spoke up.
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“How do you expect me as a part of the future of this country to still believe in a country who thinks they can through CBN freeze my account for no just cause? This is not fair.
“I am not afraid – I am only disappointed that this country will treat us this way. We are the soul of this nation and no nation exists without her people,” she wrote in a tweet on Monday night.
Oduala said the funds in the frozen account included her personal money as well as donations from people who believed in the #EndSARS movement.
The activist said she took up the role of youth representative in the Lagos panel at the expense of her “education, personal life and family” but the government disappointed her by clamping down on herself and others.
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