One of the #RevolutionNow protesters, who was arrested alongside 18 others on Wednesday, informed Tribune Online that they were arrested on their way home from the protest.
According to the information gathered from Comr. Akinnubi Adetolu Emmanuel, he said “we were pursued along Oshodi Express, we were pursued until we were arrested.
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Policemen were coming from the front and the back. The policemen blocked our vehicle and arrested us and took us to Area F Police station.
19 of us were arrested and we are presently there now.”
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