A Professor of Political Science, Lagos State University, Sylvester Odion Akhaine, has called for the immediate release of Omoyele Sowore who was arrested Saturday by Department of State Security, DSS, operatives.
Professor Akhaine who condemned the arrest also described it as inhuman, undemocratic and dictatorial.
Akhaine’s statement reads thus: “My attention has been drawn to the arrest of my compatriot, Omoyele Sowore by men of the Department of State Security in the early hours of yesterday for his intention to associate with fellow suffering Nigerians to make their voice heard on the maladministration of General Mohammadu Buhari administration.
“I join other well-meaning Nigerians to call for his immediate release and condemn the arrest in unequivocal terms. It is not only inhuman, it is undemocratic and dictatorial. Sowore must be released with immediate effect otherwise, the government should be ready to expand its prison walls.
“There is no gainsaying that the Nigerian state has collapsed under the watch of the incumbent administration. Indeed, Nigeria has sunk to all-time low on all governance indices. No nation has been so afflicted with a cluster of warped, anti-development and anti-intellectual elite as the one prevalent in our country today. Those who think that it will be business as usual are only kidding themselves.
“Let it be known that sovereignty belongs to the Nigerian people and that sovereignty is indivisible and those currently holding publics offices in Nigeria are transient temporal occupiers and can be dismissed by the people at any time.
“As things stand today, Nigerians have reached the cross-roads and can no longer tolerate the prevailing incompetence, squandering of the wealth of the nation, poor management of the war against insurgents in the north east and the atmosphere of siege perpetrated by state-minded herdsmen across the country.
“Nigerians should be ready for the defence of their rights. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”
