Malcolm Omirhobo, a Lagos-based lawyer and activist who embarked on a ‘one-man protest’ against the killing of at least 43 farmers in Borno State, has been arrested at the Presidential Villa gate in Abuja by the operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS).
The activist arrived at the gate at about 9am wearing a customised T-Shirt with an inscription, “Stop The Genocide”(in front) and “Halt The Genocide”(behind). He was stopped by the policemen attached to the gate near the Federal Secretariat while heading toward the Presidential Villa.
Omirhobo had come to the villa gate to protest against the gruesome killing of the rice and fish farmers in Zabarmari community, Borno State.
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The police put a call to one of their superior officers, Hadejia, who appealed Omirhobo to write a formal letter if he wanted to have an audience with the President.
An argument ensued as the lawyer insisted on seeing President Muhammadu Buhari to tell him to stop the slaughtering of innocent Nigerian citizens in the country.
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However, trouble started when the armed DSS officials arrived the scene, arrested the activist and harassed the journalists covering the scene.
Addressing journalists before his arrest, Omirhobo said he had come to the Presidential Villa to peacefully protest against the government-assisted genocide going on in Nigeria.
He said, “Coming on the heels of the slaughtering of 110 farmers in Borno State, I am here to tell the President that enough is enough. He should stop playing the ostrich because the government is backing all the evils perpetrated by these evil people killing innocent and harmless Nigerians.
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“I am saying it categorically that the government is conniving, conspiring and assisting this crime against humanity, and that is why I am here to protest. I came here now, but the officers are saying that I cannot exercise my rights”.
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