Aggrieved youths yesterday, shunned police directive banning protest and protested in commemoration of the one year anniversary of the #EndSARS protests in Osogbo, Osun State capital.
The youths, who carried banners and placards, chanted anti-government songs as they marched from Ita-Olokan area through Oja-Oba, Station Road, Post Office, Old-Garage and Oke-Fia areas of the town.
When the protesters gathered at Oke-Fia, a team of policemen stormed the environment and dispersed the youths.
However, another team of policemen led by the Divisional Police Officer, Dugbe Division, Osogbo, CSP Oyegbade Akinloye, pounced on a journalist, Sikiru Obarayese, the Correspondent of Daily Post, at Old Garage and assaulted him.
Other journalists covering the protest were said to have fled the scene of the protest to prevent arrest by the police.
Few minutes after Obarayese was arrested and beaten, the DPO ordered some operatives to charge him to court.
The journalist was later arraigned before an Osogbo Magistrate’s Court for allegedly videoing the DPO and assaulting him during the protest.
Magistrate O. A. Daramola, who queried the prosecutor on what prevents the journalist from videoing the DPO if he was not doing anything negative, ordered that the matter be struck out and discharged Obarayese.
