The Department of state security services, DSS, has arrested Olawale Bakare and several other #RevolutionNow protesters in Ondo state.
It was learnt that Bakare alongside several others had converged at the Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists located in Olaiya, Osogbo, to address the Press when the incident occurred.
The leadership of the chapel had invited them into the premises when armed DSS officials swooped in and arrested seven of them.
They’ve since been whisked away to an unknown location.
Bakare’s arrest is coming shortly after 40 protesters were arrested in Abuja by Military personnel but later released after a strong warning to them to obey the covid-19 protocols.
According to the security operatives who arrested them, they were taken-in because they failed to obey the social distancing instruction and not for protesting.
Meanwhile, information reaching us hinted that government clamped down hard on the protesters everywhere as security operatives deployed to arrest and detain #RevolutionNow protesters in Abuja have been accused of brutalizing and shaving the head of one of its members.
The victim disclosed that the officers forced him to lie flat on the floor before one of them produced a knife while another used a broken bottle to cut off his dreadlocks and shave his hair.
The young man said that the security agents harassed him for wearing “brown hair’.
It was also gathered that another protester was beaten with chains and an iron bar. The #RevolutionNow protests are aimed at demanding better governance from the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
