The African Action Congress (AAC) has called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya (popularly known as MC Oluomo) following a comment he reportedly made at Sunday’s Five Million Man march held in Lagos.
According to reports, MC Oluomo, the Chairman of the f Lagos State Parks Management Committee, reportedly queried the veracity of the reported death of some persons during the 20th October 2020 #EndSARS protest in the Lekki area of the state. MC Oluomo was said to have asked rhetorically: “where are the bodies?”, “Where are their relatives?”, “where were they buried?”
However, reacting to this development, the National Publicity Secretary of African Action Congress, Femi Adeyeye, in a statement, asked they Mr Akinsanya be arrested and questioned over his knowledge of the Lekki massacre, which he claimed was a “political game”.
“It is rather unfortunate that while our comrades and other reputable Nigerians are struggling to seek justice for #EndSARS victims, both dead and alive and as the 2nd #EndSARS memorial draws closer, the transport boss would seize this time, just in the bid to whitewash the deeds of his bosses, open old wounds, both in the hearts of Nigerian youths and the direct victims; those who lost their loved ones, and livelihood during the Lekki Massacre of 20th October 2020.
“It beats one to hear such vitriolic anecdotes being told by a high-ranking supporter of the APC Presidential candidate after the whole questions surrounding the massacre have been settled over a year ago by a panel set up by the Lagos State Government itself. Recall that the panel found the Nigerian state and their apparatus culpable of different crimes in its report. But till today, the said, “white paper” of the government has not brought justice to the victims and no culprits including known military and police officers have been arrested or prosecuted for committing a such heinous crime against the people of Nigeria.
“We are not ignorant of the fact that the embattled Transport Union leader was only rehashing the unfortunate statement of the APC Presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu who in his megalomaniac self asked Nigerians in the morning after the massacre, “where are the bodies?”. Same of Same!”
The AAC further noted that it is now important more than before, that the Lagos #EndSARS panel report be re-published by the government for everyone “including Musiliu Akinsanya to read for themselves the answers to those asinine questions.
“We also demand an immediate truth and reconciliation process for all victims of #EndSARS and that those languishing in detention centres across the country be released before the commencement of the activities of the 2nd Memorial.
Conclusively, we maintain that electioneering must be devoid of ethnic and religious diatribes that are capable of setting the country on fire. Candidates and their supporters must desist from using tribe and religion to divide the people of Nigeria. The hunger, poverty and deprivation in the land do not recognise these primordial sentiments and those are the issues we are focused on tackling as a party as we continue to mobilize Nigerians towards total liberation.