Sowore Condemns Attack on Women, Children Protesting Insecurity in Kwara, Blasts Governor Abdulrazaq, Police Over Violence at Government House

Former presidential candidate and human rights activist Omoyele Sowore has condemned the violent attack on women and children who were peacefully protesting worsening insecurity and mass kidnappings in parts of Kwara State. The protesters were assaulted by suspected hired thugs while demonstrating in front of the Kwara State Government House in Ilorin. Sowore expressed outrage that officers of the Nigeria Police Force allegedly stood by without intervening as the protesters were beaten and humiliated. He accused Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of intolerance and high-handedness, insisting that permitting or tolerating such actions against citizens exercising their constitutional right to protest is unacceptable in a democracy. Sowore also called for the immediate identification and punishment of police officers who failed in their duty, as well as the arrest and prosecution of those who carried out the attack.