I’ll Offer Free Legal Service To Detained #SARSMustEndNow Protesters – Niyi Akintola

Popular lawyer, Chief Niyi Akintola has offered to join other legal practitioners in the democratic wing of Egbe Amofin Oodua to provide free legal service to anyone arrested during the #SARSMustEnd campaign in some parts of Nigeria.

He recently revealed this via a statement he personally signed and made available to newsmen in Ibadan.

According to him, the free legal representation will be available to detained protesters in Akure, Ado Ekiti, Abeokuta, Ilorin, Ibadan, Osogbo, Lagos, and Abuja.

He added that only those who are unjustifiably detained in any part of towns or state mentioned will be attended to.

His words, “Many of our colleagues of Yoruba extraction have placed their colleagues in chambers on stand by for this purpose in Akure, Ado Ekiti, Abeokuta, Ilorin, Ibadan, Osogbo, Lagos and Abuja.

“Feel free to contact the undersigned if you or your relation is unjustifiably detained in any part of towns or state mentioned as a result of protests against the barbaric acts of FSARS.”

“The death of our compatriots in Ogbomoso and indeed of any Nigerian in such a gruesome manner over a constitutionally guaranteed right is most unfortunate and condemnable.

“But the attack on the palace of our most revered father and Monarch of Ogbomosoland is an apostasy, sacrilegious, barbaric, crude, uncouth and most unreasonable in the circumstances of the prevailing situation in the country.

“The revered Kabiyesi is neither the IGP, CP nor the Chief Security Officer of Oyo State. The Kabiyesi is not even the Local Government Chairman of any of five Local Governments in Ogbomosholand.

“Why visiting the revered Kabiyesi palace with such barbaric acts of hooliganism and violence? Why fighting a good cause with wrong weapons? The acts of violence on the revered Palace is un-Yoruba-like.”