Nigerian comedian, Debo Adebayo, aka Mr Macaroni, was arrested by operatives of the Lagos State police command for the #OccupyLekkiTollGate protest.
The protest was planned to protesr the decision of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry allowing the Lekki Concession Company (LCC) to reopen the Lekki toll gate.
Adebayo was arrested Saturday (February 13) morning after the police told him “we don’t want you here”.
In a Live Instagram feed before his phone and those of other arrested protesters were seized, the comedian lamented that “Lekki is under military rule.”
“I’m being arrested. I’m being arrested ooo Nigerians you can see,” he said in a mixture of English and Pidgin in one of the video clips.
“So they are collecting our phones right now. We are not fighting them,” he said in another clip, before his phone was seized.
At least 20 other protesters were said to have been arrested by the police.
The Federal Government and the Police had warned against the protest, vowing to deal with anyone caught involving in such demonstration.
“Permit me to state in clear terms that organising any protest in furtherance of the recent violent and destructive #EndSARS protest will be counterproductive to the ongoing series of inquiries and investigations into many cases related to the #EndSARS violence and the present security situation of the state,” the state commissioner of police, Hakeem Odumosu, was reported to haveh said.
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