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Osun women connected Monday stormed the streets of Osogbu, protesting against alleged constabulary intimidation, governmental unit and killings up of Saturday’s governorship predetermination successful the state.
The women, bearing placards with assorted inscriptions, sang solidarity songs astatine the apical of their voices.
DAILY POST reports that immoderate of the inscriptions read, “Stop Electoral Violence,” “We Want Ballots, Not Bullets,” “Election Is Not War,” “Vote, Don’t Fight,” and “Stop the Killings successful Osun.
One of the women, simply identified arsenic Eniola, portion speaking during the protest, condemned the unit being witnessed successful the authorities up of the election, stressing that governmental disagreements should ne'er beryllium utilized to warrant killings, intimidation oregon destruction.
“Our children, husbands, brothers and sisters indispensable not go casualties of governmental ambition. Elections travel and go, but quality lives cannot beryllium replaced,” she said.
The women demonstrators pleaded with President Bola Tinubu to wade into what they described arsenic a increasing menace to the information and information of residents of Osun State.
They besides demanded the redeployment of the Osun State Commissioner of Police, CP Ibrahim Gotan, alleging perceived partisan...
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