BREAKING:Take-It-Back Movement has announced Nationwide Protest For Dele Farotimi

The pro-democracy group, Take-It-Back Movement, has announced December 10 as the date for nationwide and global protests against the Nigerian police. This action is in response to the detention of human rights lawyer Dele Farotimi, who faces allegations of defaming legal luminary Afe Babalola. According to Fusion Chronicle Reporter, the Ekiti State Magistrate Court in Ado-Ekiti has denied bail to Farotimi, who is accused of cybercrime.

Farotimi was arrested following a petition by a legal luminary, Chief Afe Babalola (SAN).

Nigerians have been outraged over the decision of the Magistrate to remand Farotimi in prison, viewing it as part of the corruption in the judiciary which Farotimi had written about. 

To sustain the momentum, the Take-It-Back Movement has declared December 10, 2024 nationwide/global protest against the Nigerian judiciary, maintaining that Nigerians could not be silenced.

The protest titled: “Nigerians refuse to be SILENCED,” will hold in Lagos – Afe Babalola Chambers, Abuja Federal Ministry of Justice, Ekiti Police Headquarters, Ado-Ekiti and at the Kings’ College Campus, London, United Kingdom.

The charge suit no: MAD/1,476.C/2024, pits the Ekiti State Commissioner of Police as the complainant against Farotimi as the defendant.

Some of the charges had read, “That you Dele Farotimi ‘m’ sometimes in 2024 authored, published and circulated your book titled: “Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System” which was received and read all over the world including Ado-Ekiti within the Ado-Ekiti Magisterial District wherein you stated at page IX of the book: “That Aare Afe Babalola corrupted the Supreme Court to procure a fraudulent judgment in the service of his clients” which is likely to cause fear and alarm to the public or disturb the public peace knowing or having reason to believe that the Statements is false and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 59(1) of Criminal Code Act.

“That you Dele Farotimi ‘m’ sometimes in 2024 authored, published and circulated your book titled: “Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System” which was received and read all over the world including Ado-Ekiti within the Ado-Ekiti Magisterial District wherein you stated at page X: “That Aare Afe Babalola, Olu Daramola, Olu Faro and the law offices of Afe Babalola & Co, (Emmanuel Chambers) compromised the Supreme Court and the remaining semblance of integrity it might have had when they went back to the Supreme Court and got that Court to swim in the sewer of corruption and shameful self abnegation” which is likely to cause fear and alarm to the public or disturb the public peace knowing or having reason to believe that the Statements is false and thereby committed an offence.” 

Fusion Chronicle Reporters reported on Wednesday that the King’s College London in the United Kingdom had come under intense global pressure to cancel its Afe Babalola Centre for Transnational Education, named after legal luminary, Afe Babalola, and return his donation to the institution. 

Fusion Chronicle Reporters learnt that international writers, human rights groups and Nigerians globally are mounting the pressure on the foremost UK College to act on Babalola’s alleged abuse of powers.
Fusion Chronicle Reporters also reported that the King’s College London in the United Kingdom had come under intense global pressure to cancel its Afe Babalola Centre for Transnational Education, named after legal luminary, Afe Babalola, and return his donation to the institution.

Fusion Chronicle had learnt that international writers, human rights groups and Nigerians globally are mounting the pressure on the foremost UK College to act on Babalola’s alleged abuse of powers. 

Babalola had, through a petition, used the Nigerian police to arrest and remand human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi. 

Fusion Chronicle Reporters earlier exclusively reported that the King’s College London was presently worried over its Afe Babalola Centre for Transnational Education, named after the Nigerian legal luminary, who is currently facing backlashes. 

Top sources in the know of the matter had told Fusion Chronicle Reporters that the King’s College London reached out to the Amnesty International, a global human rights organisation, for advisory on what to do. 

“Afe Babalola gave them 10 million pounds to set up the center. So, the King’s College was responding to public pressure from Nigerians all over the world to cancel the Afe Babalola’s Center for Transnational Education, following his role in arresting Dele Farotimi,” one of the top sources had revealed.