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HOW SOWORE CAN GALVANIZE NIGERIAN YOUTHS NOW

Four days after the @YeleSowore-led #RevolutionNow Movement embarked on a protest across parts of Nigeria, some of the participants arrested by @PoliceNG and the DSS, are still illegally incarcerated at various detention facilities. ImageImageImageImage
2/ Illegally incarcerating the hapless and aggrieved Nigerian youths who embarked on the #August5thProtest, beyond 24-48 hours, runs afoul of Section 35 of Nigeria's 1999 Constitution, which guarantees Right to Personal Liberty.
3/ Section 35 (5) provides that an accused person who has been arrested on the allegation of having committed an offence must be charged to court within 24 hours where a court of competent jurisdiction is located within a radius of forty kilometers from the police station.
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Thread on my experience as a corper during d 2011 presidential election.

I was serving in Taraba, got d position of a polling officer. On the election day, some Fulani/Hausa's came with underage kids to vote. By mere looking at them, you will know they aren't up to 18years.
They actually do have voting cards with them. I tried forming a patriotic citizen, not to allow them vote.
But they polling assistant, being half Igbo (dad) and half Fulani (mum), whispered to my ears, saying "from the little he can understand this people are saying,
they will attack us if we don't allow these kids to vote"
Ah! As nwa guy I was, I looked at the police and civil defense personnel with us at the polling unit & all they had were batons. I looked at the other party, I can visibly see Dane guns, cutlasses, daggers, sticks etc
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