Akogun Tola Adeniyi
The former Managing Director of Daily Times, Akogun Tola Adeniyi, has condemned the Nigerian Police over the dehumanising treatment meted to some Nigerians who participated in the Yoruba Nation rally held in Lagos on Saturday, July 3.
Great Achiever Magazine reports that in a release by Akogun Adeniyi, some Nigerians who participated in the rally were stripped to their underpants, while their symbols of self protection were yanked off by policemen at the venue of the rally.
He called on Nigerians of all faith to rise up in condemnation of the policemen who were involved in such barbaric act.
Adeniyi likened what those hapless citizens had on them to the Christian Cross or the Muslim Tesubah or the Catholic Rosary or whatever object, including the bullet- proof vest that individuals believe can offer them self protection.
He said: “The barbaric act of the Nigerian Police was what Colonialists did to the Tivs in Nigeria and to aboriginals in North America and Australia in their supremacist craze to strip them of their symbols of spirituality, thereby destroying their faith.
“Nobody in Nigeria should under any guise rubbish the sacredness of any other people’s faith”.
Adeniyi queried if the people repressed would have been stripped of their Bibles and Qur’ans if those were the objects of protection found on them.
He therefore cautioned that descent to primitive fascism should have a limit, as Nigerians have a historic duty to stop the crude tyrannical totalitarianism.
