Popular entertainer and activist , Charles Oputa , aka Charly Boy , is not taking kindly to the claims by the police that he faked his collapse at a protest ground in Abuja to attract attention .
He told Sunday Scoop , “It is true that I collapsed. The tear gas made me dizzy and I fell . I also stand by my words that a police officer hit me with his gun. The government is a lie and so is the police force. Everybody is lying and in deceit mode . If Nigerian people believe their government and police , then so be it. I have told you what happened . It is not my job to be trading words about whether or not it happened . My focus is on what we ’re doing. The mistake the police made was to face the protesters as if they ( police ) had come for war . Meanwhile , they cannot face Boko Haram and armed robbers . They prefer to bully ordinary citizens .”
Speaking further on what actually transpired on the fateful day , he said , “They didn’t want us to continue the protest regardless of the fact that we had written to them that it would last for two weeks . They reluctantly agreed because we spoke with all the security agencies . I guess they were overwhelmed with the attention we were getting and they came out in full force to make sure we did not gather. On that particular day , it wasn ’t even a rally; it was just the normal sit -out where we would gather and sit down in public for some hours . On that day , we were only seven that were there . The security operatives were on edge and they didn ’t want us to start attracting other people . So they turned their tear gas , water cannon and attack dogs on us . Later on , they said it wasn ’t us they were targeting, that they were aiming for the miscreants around . Meanwhile , they fired the tear gas and water cannon straight at us . Ironically , they got more bad publicity for their action . Anyway, we continued the protest after that day and we would still go on . We plan to continue the protest till the president returns to the country . If the president was my father , I would carry him out of that office and get him proper treatment and rest . But we know that his hands are tied personally. He is not really the one running Nigeria ; it is a cabal. ” he said .
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