Police Block Access to Afrika Shrine to Stop #EndSARS Meeting

Matilda Omonaiye/

Police officers have surrounded the vicinity of Afrika Shrine, where a meeting on #EndSARS protests was expected to hold today.

Seun Anikulapo Kuti, one of the sons of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, had earlier sent out flyers inviting the public to a meeting on the lessons from #EndSARS protests.

Several people, including activists and #EndSARS campaigners, had indicated an interest in attending the meeting before the convener of the meeting, Seun announced that it had been suspended.

In a series of tweets, Seun stated, “Yesterday, the government called my eldest sister, Yeni Anikalpo Kuti, and threatened to close the shrine if I hold my event there tomorrow and also sent a letter to back it up.

“I respect my families’ decision not to hold the event as is but I will still go ahead with all the other organisations to launch THE MOVEMENT OF THE PEOPLE tomorrow and start our political resistance to the tyranny of this oppressive regime.

“This is a meeting, just a meeting of organisations and they are basically banning the right of association. Why are they afraid of the people organising? What is democratic about this act? The last time we tried to launch the government quickly called curfew and this time they have used threat but you can’t stop the will of the people.”

Earlier, the Lagos State Police Command through the Alausa Division, had written to the management of Afrika Shrine warning that the meeting posed a security threat.

“You are hereby warned to suspend such gathering as any infraction that may emerge from this gathering will be tagged a deliberate action to sabotage the transition and restoration of the peace in Lagos State by the Lagos State Government and the Nigeria Police Force,” the letter reads in part.

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