EndSARS protesters on Saturday disrupted Owu Day festival in Abeokuta with former president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Ogun State deputy governor, Engr. Noimot Salako in attendance.
No fewer than 23 of the protesters were however arrested with guns and charms recovered from them by the police.
The protesters were arrested when they went violent, the spokesman of the Ogun State Police Command, DSP, Abimbola Oyeyemi said in a statement made available to FrontPage.
The protesters were said to have gathered in their hundreds as early as 7 a.m. at Panseke area of Abeokuta, Ogun State, in continuation of their protest against SARS despite warning that the exercise might be hijacked by hoodlums and miscreants.
The police said the protesters headed for the Palace of Olowu where the traditional festival of Owu Day was ongoing and violently disrupted the ceremony which had the former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the deputy governor Engr. Noimot Salako, were present.
They were said to have also damaged the back windshield of the deputy governor’s official car before heading to SARS office at Magbon where they fired some gunshots and injured one Sgt Akabudike Augustine.
The police said consequently, men of the outfit dispersed them and subsequently arrested 23 amongst them.
Some of their vehicles abandoned at SARS office were recovered and searched, the police spokesman said.
The police said three guns – one pump action, two locally made pistols, some rounds of ammunition and assorted charms were recovered in one of the vehicles with registration number Lagos KRD 551GJ.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police has once again appealed to parents, community leaders and other stakeholders to call their wards to order.
He said the police command would not fold its arms while hoodlums would be unleashing violence on officers and men for just no reason.
