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Kogi debacle: A requiem for activism?

Kazeem Olalekan Israel
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As a member of the young cadres in the field of activism, there are some older Comrades we look up to for guidance and inspiration. However, l was taken aback when l saw how some of our senior cadres became the mouthpiece for the embattled former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello.

I watched with dismay how these senior comrades were addressing press conference, purporting to be defending rule of law and sanctity of the judiciary in respect of the court order obtained at Lokoja by Yahaya Bello against his arrest and prosecution by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). It should also be noted that these same set of senior comrades, whom I have reasons to presume to be under the instigation of Yahaya Bello, last year, embarked on a one-week street protest against the former chairman of EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa, calling for his removal for allegedly flouting a Kogi State High Court order in respect of same Yahaya Bello.

It is quite embarrassing that a number of Civil Society activists in Nigeria have turned themselves to the mouthpiece of those who have collectively left the mass of Nigerian people impoverished.

I must really commend Femi Falana for his intervention on this issue which I align with.

Kazeem Olalekan Israel, Ibadan

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