#OccupyLekki: Govt Guaranteed Dissidents’ Privileges Were Secured, Says Lagos Principal Legal Office

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Moyosore Onigbanjo, principal legal officer and magistrate for equity in Lagos, says the state government guaranteed that the privileges of the #OccupyLekkiTollGate dissidents were not penetrated.

In a video that turned into a web sensation on Saturday, the dissidents, who were exhibiting against the resumption of activities at the Lekki tollbooth, were captured and swarmed inside what gave off an impression of being a van, with a considerable lot of them half-bare.

The adolescents were subsequently charged to court, and allowed bail.

Talking on Sunday when he highlighted on Politics Today, a Channels Television program, the principal legal officer denounced the brutalisation of the dissidents, adding that the police will give record of what occurred at the tollbooth on Saturday.

He additionally noticed that the state determines no satisfaction in seeing individuals badgering, adding that the public authority’s obligation is to keep up peace.

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“Your entitlement to fight just reaches out to where the other individual’s entitlement to his own opportunity of affiliation and development begins,” he said.

“We denounce any demonstration of fierceness and dehumanization with respect to the police or anyone so far as that is concerned.

“Furthermore, if examination uncovers that any cop mishandled their position, and these realities are shipped off the DPP’s office, and the DPP says that the police officer or lady has a case to reply, fitting charges will be recorded.

“The third leg of it, even these residents who asserted that they were mistreated likewise have the choice to sue the police to court for this demonstration which they affirmed.

“It might have been not difficult to say court won’t sit till Monday, yet we didn’t do that. We decided to get a judge there through the portable court. We decided to get examiners there, and they were conceded bail and every one of them delivered.

“However, that didn’t occur, on the grounds that we’re hellbent on guaranteeing that no one’s privilege is stomped all over.”