Emergency Rule: Fubara reacts to alleged heavy-handed treatment of protesters by police

Emergency Rule: Fubara reacts to alleged heavy-handed treatment of protesters by police

Suspended Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has strongly criticized the Nigeria Police for his or her alleged heavy- passed remedy of protesters in Ahoada East, describing it as a clean show of double requirements and a chance to democratic freedoms.

This response comes amid growing political anxiety in Rivers State following the assertion of a kingdom of emergency and the appointment of retired Vice Admiral Ibok-Ette Ibas as the only administrator via way of means of President Bola Tinubu.

On Monday, parallel protests befell throughout the kingdom . In Port Harcourt, demonstrators rallied in guide of the emergency rule, at the same time as in Ahoada East, protesters known as for the reinstatement of Governor Fubara.

While the Port Harcourt rally, prepared beneathneath the group “Rivers Women for Peace and Good Governance,” became performed peacefully, the protesters in Ahoada East have been dispersed via way of means of protection operatives the use of teargas.

“Old girls got here out in Ahoada to exercising their proper to protest… the police teargassed them to the volume that one in all them, an antique woman, fainted,” stated Jerry Omatsogunwa, Special Adviser to Governor Fubara on Electronic Media.

“The police have requirements for the identical activity. Those girls in Ahoada are the heroes of democracy.”

In stark contrast, the Port Harcourt protesters marched peacefully from Garrison Junction to Isaac Park, sporting placards that read: “Emergency rule is constitutional” and “Investigate Fubara’s bloated contracts.” The demonstration became led via way of means of former Social Welfare Commissioner, Mrs. Inime Aguma.

“We thank the President for maintaining a kingdom of emergency in Rivers State. Our democratic shape became decimated. The House of Assembly became comatose,” Aguma stated . She additionally recounseled the only administrator’s management for restoring peace and governance.

Fubara’s aide, Omatsogunwa, condemned the guide for the emergency rule, labeling it “ guide for illegality.” He additionally accused the only administrator of harboring political aims in Cross River State and warned, “The entire global must hold a watch at the kingdom Commissioner of Police and the only administrator.”

The disaster deepened after President Tinubu suspended Governor Fubara, his deputy, and the State House of Assembly, following months of political unrest. The emergency assertion , advocated via way of means of the National Assembly, is presently being challenged in courtroom docket via way of means of eleven PDP governors who’ve engaged pinnacle felony minds to take the problem to the Supreme Court.

Attorney General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), is stated to be getting ready a proper felony reaction on behalf of the Presidency.