The Nationwide Coordinator of the Hurry It Again Motion, Juwon Sanyaolu, has stated he was once no longer served any lawn realize limiting the proposed protest in Lagos to the Gani Fawehinmi Self-rule Soil in Ojota and the Sleep Soil in Ketu.
The TIB is among the organisations fronting the deliberate national protest in opposition to starvation and financial hardships, scheduled to start Thursday, August 1, to ten, 2024.
A Lagos Circumstance Top Court docket, on Tuesday, limited the proposed national protest in Lagos to the 2 landscapes.
Justice Emmanuel Ogundare granted the exparte utility filed by means of the Lagos Circumstance Legal professional Basic and Commissioner for Justice, Lawal Pedro.
The TIB chief, Sanyaolu, was once indexed because the defendant along Adamma Ukpabi and Tosin Harsogba (for Lively Voters Workforce); Hassan Soweto; Individuals unknown, and the Commissioner of Police, Lagos Circumstance.
The pass judgement on granted the applying by means of an period in-between injunction to limit the defendants from converging and wearing out the proposed protests in Lagos from August 1-10 with the exception of within the two authorized places from 8 am to six pm.
Year shifting his utility prior to the lawn, Pedro stated there was once a necessity to offer protection to the essential infrastructures of the surrounding and forbid an irreparable lack of lives and quality as witnessed all through the EndSARS protest in 2020, having been aware of notices by means of other pursuits who’re for and in opposition to the national protest.
However in an interview with The PUNCH on Wednesday, Sanyaolu stated, “I am yet to be served, and to this end, I take this news as a rumour, and a joke taken too far! No court order can repress a people’s desire to be free,” he informed The PUNCH.
He added, “I was neither served personally nor by any other means. So how do I know of the order or its content? How do I or any ‘unknown person’ as they claim, comply with what we have not seen?”
The Lagos Coordinator of the TIB, Adeyemi Taofeek, had in a remark reacting to the lawn insigt, requested the surrounding to serve the protesters with buses to put across protesters from their level of convergence to the court-designated venues.
“The buses to be provided must be clean, safe and air-conditioned. The buses must arrive at these designated areas as early as 6 am and return protesters to their convergence points at 6 pm. Your failure to provide buses for the protesters means they (protesters) would begin the march/walk to the court-designated parks in the city daily for the duration of the #EndBadGovernance direct actions,” Taofeek wrote.
The Circumstance Commissioner for Data and Technique, Gbenga Omotoso, when requested on Wednesday whether or not the surrounding would accede to the protesters’ calls for for buses, stated a remark can be issued.