•By Halimah Olamide
Human Rights activist Omoyele Sowore has described as “despicable” the arrest of controversial social media influencer. Martins Vincent OTSE also a.k.a, Very Dark Man and Chizorom Ofoegbu, also known as Ijele Speaks by the police.
According to a post via his X account on Monday, he stated that he learnt Very Dark Man was detained under the guise of Cybercrime Act relating to him divulging some information that didn’t sit well with some senior police officers.
He also noted that Ijele Speaks was arrested by the police and sent to prison in Keffi under questionable and inappropriate magisterial misconduct in Abuja.
Sowore alleged that the Nigerian police colluded with a pastor violating his fundamental rights, therefore jeopardising his liberty.
He has condemned the treatment meted out on the duo by the police, hence urging the right authorities to release them with immediate effect.
“The police continues to misuse its powers to suppress free speech by colluding with pastors, GOs, entertainers, politicians, and the highly connected.
“I condemn this high-handed, reckless, inhuman, unjust and illegal police conduct and urge the @policeng authorities to release @thatverydarkman and @IjeleSpeaks2 with immediate effect.
“The @PoliceNG must continually be reminded that this is how it rode itself into #EndSARS, a mass action that nearly consumed the Nigerian Police Force. No one has a right to suppress free speech under the guise of illegality.
“Free all those detained under the criminally engineered “Cybercrime Act” NOW! #RevolutionNow” he wrote.