Charles Oputa, aka Charly Boy, made news again when he set out on a
protest in Abuja but ended up collapsing following tear gas released
into the air.
Speaking without Sunday Scoop about the protest, he said:
“It is true that I collapsed. The tear gas made me dizzy and I fell. I
also stand by my words that a police officer hit me with his gun. The
government is a lie and so is the police force. Everybody is lying and
in deceit mode. If Nigerian people believe their government and police,
then so be it. I have told you what happened. It is not my job to be
trading words about whether or not it happened. My focus is on what
we’re doing. The mistake the police made was to face the protesters as
if they (police) had come for war. Meanwhile, they cannot face Boko
Haram and armed robbers. They prefer to bully ordinary citizens.”
Speaking further on what actually transpired on the fateful day, he
said, “They didn’t want us to continue the protest regardless of the
fact that we had written to them that it would last for two weeks. They
reluctantly agreed because we spoke with all the security agencies. I
guess they were overwhelmed with the attention we were getting and they
came out in full force to make sure we did not gather. On that
particular day, it wasn’t even a rally; it was just the normal sit-out
where we would gather and sit down in public for some hours. On that
day, we were only seven that were there. The security operatives were on
edge and they didn’t want us to start attracting other people. So they
turned their tear gas, water cannon and attack dogs on us. Later on,
they said it wasn’t us they were targeting, that they were aiming for
the miscreants around. Meanwhile, they fired the tear gas and water
cannon straight at us. Ironically, they got more bad publicity for their
action. Anyway, we continued the protest after that day and we would
still go on. We plan to continue the protest till the president returns
to the country. If the president was my father, I would carry him out of
that office and get him proper treatment and rest. But we know that his
hands are tied personally. He is not really the one running Nigeria; it
is a cabal.” he said.
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3 comments:
I dont understand the so called battle mr charly man
God bless you Charly boy, please he should resign if he knows he is not fit to rule the country. You dont see all the rubbish in other countries
Good Buhari is too comfortable there, people are suffering ooo
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