The State Security Service (SSS) yesterday detained the President of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), James Olawale Ajani, over plans by the group to protest the proposed removal of oil subsidy by the Federal Government.
Ajani arrived the Abuja office of the SSS by noon and was questioned over tomorrow’s protest against subsidy removal.
NYCN Programme Officer Comrade Success Olayemi confirmed the detention of Ajani, saying Nigerian youths would still go ahead with the protest.
Olayemi said he deliberately accompanied Ajani to the SSS office but decided to stay within the premises since they had envisaged that he might be detained.
As at the time of filing this report, the NYCN leader was still being held.
Ajani had said youths would go on hunger strike tomorrow to show their displeasure over the fuel subsidy removal.
He told The Nation yesterday in Abuja that the Federal Government should jettison the planned subsidy removal and face other pressing issues such as the Boko Haram sect that has been killing innocent Nigerians in the North.
Ajani said: “The hunger strike is a peaceful protest Nigerian youths are using to show their displeasure and shock over the planned demonic removal of fuel subsidy. Nigerian youths are saying they are already hungry, and we are going on hunger strike to protest and kick against it.
“It is painful to imagine the untold hardship the fuel subsidy removal will cause. Nigerian youths will stand together on the 11th day of the 11th month of Year 2011 to say ‘NO’ to fuel subsidy removal.”
But the Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) described the arrest as a move to intimidate Nigerians not to resist the withdrawal.
It urged the Federal Government to prepare its detention for more activists, who are expected to be arrested over the matter. A statement by the President of the TMG, Comrade Moshood Erubami, said: “The arrest is the first signal of what await the Nigerian activists under President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration since it is definite that Nigerians will react to the various painful impositions lined up to be unleashed to increase the burden of the masses.”
Source: The Nation
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