Human rights activist and former presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has strongly condemned the violent assault on women and children who were peacefully protesting rising kidnappings and insecurity outside the Kwara State Government House in Ilorin.
In a viral post on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday, December 29, 2025, Sowore described a circulating video of the incident as “one of the most despicable scenes I have ever witnessed at a seat of government.” The footage shows suspected hired thugs flogging, harassing, and manhandling the protesters while uniformed Nigeria Police officers allegedly stood by without intervening.
Sowore accused Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of “intolerance and high-handedness” for either sanctioning or permitting the attack on citizens exercising their constitutional right to peaceful assembly.
“It is especially disturbing that uniformed @PoliceNG officers stood by and watched as helpless women protesters were beaten, harassed, and humiliated in broad daylight,” Sowore wrote. He demanded the immediate identification and sanctioning of the complicit officers, as well as the arrest and prosecution of the assailants, warning that inaction would confirm “official complicity.”
The peaceful demonstration was organised to highlight mass abductions and worsening insecurity in parts of Kwara State, with protesters calling for urgent government intervention.
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As of publication, neither the Kwara State Government nor the Nigeria Police Force has issued an official response to the incident.
This is a developing story.
By Ogungbayi Beedee Adeyemi
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