The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC has urged the Federal Government to release Omoyele Sowore and 26 other protesters arrested on account of the #RevolutionNow protest on Monday.
It would be recalled that the publisher of Sahara Reporters and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress in the February 2019 elections was arrested in the early hours of Saturday by operatives of the Department of State Services in Lagos.
The protests held on August 5th in some states of the federation, with security agencies arresting some protesters.
While Sowore was moved to Abuja on Sunday and currently being detained in the custody of the DSS, twenty six other protesters have been arraigned in a Lagos court.
The Council’s General Secretary Peter Ozo-Eson in a statement said the right to peaceful protests, assembly and association is fully guaranteed by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria under sections 39 and 40.
