Leader of #ArewaMeToo Movement in Sokoto State, Sadiya Taheer, was recently accused of spreading LGBTQ rights and reportedly assaulted by the police during a rally in Sokoto on Monday, July 25, 2019. She denies the allegation and narrates her experience with the police in this interview withprompted #ArewaMeToo Movement, which you lead in Sokoto, to hold a rally recently in the state?
So we started walking away from there. We didn’t go with our vehicles because they kept hitting our vehicles when we came out. We folded our banners and all of the 20 police officers or more started coming towards us. I turned around and told my people to calm down because we were not doing anything wrong. The last time I checked, it was not a crime to be walking. They didn’t say anything; they just started destroying our placards.
So we went to the office by 8:30am on Monday but the commissioner was not yet in. When he came in, his PA gave him the letter. He stamped the letter and gave us approval. I saw the letter. He said we should get the letter to the Deputy Commissioner Operations’ office so he could give us officers. We took it to the DC Operations’ office but he was with the police commissioner. So we had to go to the commissioner’s office again. That was when they started playing us.
If you think about it, a lot of these people, their siblings, their aunties, their uncles are people that are abusers. They abuse their power because we have seen abuse of power. So they are abusers and if this Act is adopted by the state, it won’t be in their favour because most of them will be in jail. So I understand the backlash and I understand where they are coming from but it’s also very ignorant to say that we shouldn’t talk about it.
Ignore them. They’re losers. Let them understand the madness of the act. We’re with you.
God will vindicate you
Just continue on what you are doing you can't satisfied everybody that's my believe
When they can't stop you, they label you. But don't let down. We are in this fight together.
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