COMPLETE LIST: Top lawyer reveals 6 verdicts from hardship protest organisers’ meeting with IGP

• Kayode Egbetokun, inspector-licensed of police (IGP), held a virtual meeting on Tuesday, July 30, with some successfully-known persons supporting the proposed national protest in opposition to financial hardship
• Among those that attended the meeting had been human rights attorneys, Femi Falana, and Inibehe Effiong
• Legit.ng learnt that the IGP called for the meeting “to deliberate extra” on the planned nationwide demonstrations

Legit.ng journalist Ridwan Adeola Yusuf has over 9 years of journey covering metro and executive activities.

Ikeja, Lagos notify – A human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, on Tuesday night, July 30, acknowledged all the scheme thru a gathering with the inspector-licensed of police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, he reminded the police boss “to be wide awake of the fact that there own been IGPs sooner than him”.

Legit.ng had reported that Egbetokun, on Tuesday, July 30, met with attorneys and activists who own spoken in reinforce of protests planned by some Nigerians in opposition to financial hardship.

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The virtual meeting used to be attended by Egbetokun; police spokesperson, Muyiwa Adejobi; senior advocates Femi Falana and Ebun Adegboruwa as successfully as Effiong.

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Providing some details of the meeting by process of his verified X (previously Twitter) take care of, Effiong stated that he reminded Egbetokun that “he needs to be fervent in legacy and his discipline in history, and that if this protest is peaceable, history may be wide awake him for his feature, but that if anyone is killed by the police, this would perchance be recorded for him as his legacy”.

The excellent practitioner wrote:

“My deductions (from the meeting) are:

1. The IGP assured that security may be equipped to protesters who’re gathered on the venues which own been communicated to the IGP and CPs.

2. The police has no longer taken threats made by executive-sponsored thugs in opposition to peaceable protesters critically.

3. The police has permitted that there is nothing that can stop the protest from taking discipline.

4. The IGP acknowledged that the protection power is presumably no longer deployed all the scheme thru the protests, but that they’re most frequently invited if there’s violence that the police cannot take care of an eye on.

5. I am encouraging folks to write to the CPs within the heaps of States and say them of the locations they must converge.

6. Rallies and marches needs to be performed in a coordinated contrivance.”

Legit.ng recalls that tens of thousands of Nigerians took to the streets in October 2020 calling for the now-defunct Particular Anti-Robbery Squad (Sars) police unit to be disbanded.

The #EndSars protests rocked the nation for 2 weeks, culminating within the military allegedly taking pictures are dwelling rounds at protesters at Lekki, Lagos notify.

With Effiong’s revelation on Tuesday, July 30, that the IGP has ruled out protection power deployment all the scheme thru the proposed hardship protests, some Nigerians who’re ready to take care of shut to the streets peacefully can as a minimum breathe freely.

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IGP reportedly provides assurance on planned protest

Earlier, Legit.ng reported that Effiong acknowledged the IGP disclosed that there is never any thought to disrupt rallies within the road or any protest held out of doorways Peace Park in Ketu notify of Lagos notify and Gani Fawehinmi Freedom Park in Ojota.

On the opposite hand, Egbetokun indicated that the police cannot guarantee the safety of protesters who’re no longer confined to the areas which own been communicated to him or CPs within the heaps of states.

Source: Legit.ng