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August 8, 2019
The Nigeria LabourCongress, NLC has urged the Federal Government to release Omoyele Sowore and 26other protesters arrested on account of the #RevolutionNow protest on Monday.
It would be recalledthat the publisher of Sahara Reporters and presidential candidate of theAfrican Action Congress in the February 2019 elections was arrested in theearly hours of Saturday by operatives of the Department of State Services inLagos.
The protests held onAugust 5th in some states of the federation, with security agencies arrestingsome protesters.
While Sowore was movedto 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 GeneralSecretary Peter Ozo-Eson in a statement said the right to peaceful protests,assembly and association is fully guaranteed by the Constitution of the FederalRepublic of Nigeria under sections 39 and 40.