Members of the advocacy group Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG), were on Monday denied access to the Presidential Villa by Security operatives.
The BBOG had earlier declared that it will carry out a protest march to Aso Vila on Monday as part of its strategic 14-day line-up of activities to demand President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to speed up action on efforts to rescue the 218 Chibok school girls still in the captivity of the Boko Haram terrorists.
However, the security operatives involving Nigeria Police Force, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), as well as the Department of State Services (DSS), denied them entrance into the Presidential Villa.
Oby Ezekwesili and Aisha Yesufu, jointly led the protesters while the police detachment was led by CSP Chuks Obasi.
The refusal by the security to allow them entrance to their destination, it was learnt, resulted in Ezekwesili and CSP Obasi engaging in shouting match as the officer insisted that the protesters would not cross the human barricade put together by the security operatives.
“Who is the officer in charge of this command should stop it. The problem is that we still have our members on the highway. For many years, we have been advocating, we have never engaged in anarchy,” Ezekwesili had said, asking the CSP to stop pointing his fingers at her while addressing her.
Obasi in reply said, “Well, I have my mandate and my mandate is to ensure that a protest match does not assume a violent dimension.”
