CHSR Condemns Arrest/Abduction Of Comrade Juwon Sanya-Olu ...Demands His Immediate Release





The Centre for Human and Socio-economic Rights (CHSR) has called for the immediate and unconditional release of Comrade Juwon Sanya-Olu, the National Coordinator of the "Take It Back Movement," who was reportedly abducted on Monday June 11, 2024, by some people they described as agents of the state and taken to an unknown destination.

They said that Sanya-Olu was arrested because he was one of the organisers of the "We Are Hungry Protest," slated for today June 12, 2024 in commemoration of Democracy Day 2024.

The group then reminded the Nigerian security agencies and state that protest is part of democracy and that every Nigerian reserves the right to protest peacefully as enshrined in the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended.

These were contained in a statement signed by the President of CHSR, Comrade Alex Omotehinse, dated June 12, 2024.

"Arrest of Comrade JUWON SANYA-OLU by any section of the Nigeria security agencies is a ploy to bastardize our hard earned nascent democracy.

"CHSR wishes to remind the Nigerian security agencies that this democracy was achieved through protest during the darkest day of the military rule and several of our leaders in the struggle lost their lives while some who are still alive nursing one terminal disease or the other in the cause of fighting for the enthronement and returning Nigeria to a democratically elected Government.

"In the foregoing, the CHSR without any reservation hereby DEMAND THAT COMRADE JUWON SANYA-OLU SHOULD BE IMMEDIATELY UNCONDITIONALLY RELEASE for him to join host of other cadres on the barricade currently exercising their right to freedom of expression in various part of the country in the WE ARE HUNGRY PROTEST," the statement read.



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