The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) declared Monday, December 5, 2022 the day to embark on a nationwide protest against the treatment meted out to citizen Aminu Mohammed using the instrumentality of the court, after he criticised the First Lady, Aisha Buhari on Twitter.
The president of NANS, Usman Barambu, announced through a statement on Thursday, plans for a massive protest to be held across the country on Monday, December 5, 2022, to emphasize the students’ demand.
The NANS president also called for the unconditional release of the student of the Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State.
Barambu denounced Mohammed’s detention for allegedly making a derogatory post about the president’s wife.
“Sequel to the exhaustion of all options available to us before confrontation in seeking the freedom of one of us who was arrested in questionable manner, tortured, molested, harassed and detained by agents of government, you are hereby notified of the decision of the leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students to proceed on a nationwide protest,” the NANS president said in a memo to the organs of the association.
“We have consulted and consolidated and neither yielded desirable results in seeking the freedom of AMINU ADAMU MUHAMMED, student of the Federal University Dutse hence the protest shall commence as follows: Monday 5th December, 2022 Nationwide.”
Barambu made it clear that the protest was directed at both Aisha, Buhari and the IGP Usman Baba, on until the student is released.
Justice Halilu Yusuf of the Federal Capital Territory High Court remanded the student at the Suleja Correctional Center in Niger State for cyberstalking.