The police on Monday brutalised a 70-year-old poor woman hawking Fufu, Sariyu Akanmi, during the protest of Revolution Now in Osogbo, the Osun State capital.

The woman was said to be passing by where the protest was going on when the police attacked and brutalised the woman.

It was gathered that the police hit the woman with the butt of their gun, kicking her on the floor while trying to throw her inside their waiting van.

But the intervention of the people prevented them from arresting the woman.

The police also arrested about ten of the protesters, beating them as they kicked them into the vans.

Before leaving, the police led by one Adebayo Olawale sprayed tear gas on journalists, who were covering the incident and drove dangerously out of the scene.

Earlier, men of the State Security Service and the Nigeria Police Force prevented members of the Coalition for Revolution in Osun State from protesting against alleged suffering of Nigerians under the Buhari administration.

The protesters, mainly students of the Obafemi Awolowo University, the Federal Polytechnic, Ede, the Osun State Polytechnic, Iree and other public tertiary institutions in the state, had gathered at Olaiya junction in Osogbo, the state capital around 9.00 am to sensitize Nigerians about the “deplorable conditions prevalent in the country under the watch of the President Buhari.”



Source; https://maniagist.com/2019/08/05/revolution-protest-police-brutalise-70-year-old-hawker-in-osun/