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ACP Okafor Urges Ojota Protesters to Disperse After Tinubu’s Broadcast Address

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The Enugu State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of a native doctor and the father of a 26-year-old man, Chikwado Celestine Eze, who died during a failed fortification ritual in Ugbaike, Enugu Ezike, Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area last week.

Paul Okafor, the Assistant Commissioner of Police, has this morning asked the peaceful protesters in Ojota to go home because they have been addressed by President Bola Tinubu in a national broadcast earlier this morning.

Addressing the crowd directly, ACP Okafor asked protesters to cooperate and go home peacefully.

Now that you’ve been addressed, I will advise that you go home now; we treated you as friends, as children. We followed you quietly; we have been so lawful in what we have done with you. Now, I want to plead with you all to go home because you’ve been addressed.

When queried by the protesters about the content of the president’s address, Okafor told the protesters,

On your TV or radio, you will hear the news; please, let there be peace. We have been working as friends since this started. Let us enjoy peace; we need peace in Lagos.

In his speech on Sunday, President Bola Tinubu ordered the end to all protests and demonstrations, with little to no attention to the demands.

The #EndBadGovernance protest, which started on August 1 over hunger, corruption, and economic difficulties, has been marked by violence, much of it blamed on pro-government counter-protesters and security personnel misconduct.

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