The activists arrived at the church around
3:00pm alongside their lawyer, Barrister
Abubakar Marshal, and had a closed-door
meeting with the pastor where it was
confirmed that the arrest was made by
operatives of the Department of State
Services (DSS) but not the church security
officials.
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uman rights activists, Omoyele Sowore
and Deji Adeyanju have met with the
Senior Pastor of Dunamis International Gospel
Centre, Dr. Paul Enenche over the arrest of six
activists in the church for wearing
#BuhariMustGo T-shirts on Sunday.
The activists arrived at the church around
3:00pm alongside their lawyer, Barrister
Abubakar Marshal, and had a closed-door
meeting with the pastor where it was
confirmed that the arrest was made by
operatives of the Department of State Services
(DSS) but not the church security officials.
Addressing journalists after the meeting,
Adeyanju explained that the church has no
hand in the entire incident that happened.
He added that the pastor informed them that
he had taken steps at 7:00am to ensure that
the activists were released.
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He said the pastor confirmed that the activists
committed no crime and that he had reached
out to the DSS authority regarding the matter.
Adeyanju said, "There is something the pastor
said which I must reemphasise here, that they
did not like the fact that the activists came and
were making noises here but that he doesn't
want this thing to be misconstrued to mean it
is the church that is sponsoring the protest."
While clarifying the matter, Sowore said the
pastor denied claims by some persons that the
activists were trying to disrupt the church
service.
He said the pastor confirmed to them that he
saw them when they came out for altar call
that he was even excited seeing them and that
the claim was not true.
Sowore said, "They came here and it is their
right, I wore my own T-shirt to meet with him
today, my #BuhariMustGo T-shirt. So there is
nobody who can tell you what to wear to
church or to wear to school except schools
that have uniforms.
"But we are adults and if we are tired of the
system and we say the system must collapse,
it is our right to express ourselves freely. I told
the pastor when he said he was not happy
when the activists were trying to protest within
the premises that with the way things are
going on, more and more people will be
wearing #BuhariMustGo T-shirts to the church
because people are tired of Buhari regime.
"We have a respectable agreement and some
disagreements over this issue but what is
important to me and why I don't want to drag
this for too long is the release of these
individuals from detention.
"We are going to wait till evening because we
requested that they should be released today
(Monday). Nobody knows their whereabouts.
We don't know whether they have been fed or
they have been tortured."
Meanwhile, there was a mild drama at the gate
of the church when the activists were granting
press interviews.
Some overzealous policemen challenged them
and pointed guns at the journalists who were
conducting the interviews.
The situation led to heated arguments as the
gun-wielding operatives insisted on knowing
their mission for granting Interviews at the
gate.
The confusion which lasted for a few minutes
was brought under control when the activists
stood their ground that they had not violated
any law by their action.