Take-it-back Activists Plan Protest National for Mark 12 June

When Nigeria prepared to mark this year’s democratic day on June 12, the take back back movement had announced plans to lead a national protest in responding to what he called the crisis of deeper insecurity, the shrinking of civil freedom, and the deterioration of economic conditions.

In a statement released on Monday, the group’s national coordinator, Juwon Sanyaolu, asked Nigeria from all levels of society, including workers, students, craftsmen, civil society groups, and those in the diaspora, to be taken to the streets in peaceful protests.

“This June 12, we line up not only for ourselves, but for those killed in Benue, which was moved in the highlands, which was silenced in detention, and the mass of the hunger left by the corrupt elite,” said the statement, capturing the emotional tone of a movement that viewed the day of democracy this year not as a celebration, but as a call to act.

Apart from the warning and long -prohibition of public protests by the Nigerian police, Sanyaolu stressed that the planned demonstration will take place in the capital city of the states and the territory of the Federal Capital.

For the take it back movement, the symbolism of June 12, a historical date related to the democratic struggle in Nigeria, has been overshadowed by daily struggle -the survival and erosion of rights.

“What we have right now is not democracy, but organizing cruelty,” said Sanyaolu. “Freedom of speech is being attacked. The state has turned on its citizens with an unrelenting intimidation and censorship campaign.”

This group attracted special attention to the waves of violence and displacement in the middle belt and northern Nigeria, naming benue, highlands, and South Kaduna as a point of the flame where people were destroyed by repeated attacks.

Sanyaolu accused the federal government of failing in its main responsibility to protect life and property, accused that all villages had been abolished with little or without responses.

“On Plateau, Benue, and across the middle belt, mass murder continued with a frightening frequency,” he said. “People who were moved internally multiplied while the perpetrators roam free. The state, through silence and rejection, was involved.”

Outside of physical insecurity, this movement condemns what he sees as an aggressive clampdown of freedom of speech and civil freedom, especially through the use of cyberspace.

Sanyaolu accused that the action had become a tool to suppress differences of opinion, with journalists, activists, and ordinary citizens targeted for their views, both online and offline.

“In all federations, signs of democratic collapse are no longer wrong,” he said. “Journalists were harassed, activists were arrested, and residents were arrested for social media posts. Cyber ​​crime laws are now armed to monitor and silence digital differences.”

For the take it back movement, this protest is not just about opposition, this is about reclaiming the spirit of democracy.

“We take back our future,” said Sanyaolu. “Democracy is not a day of speech and parade. Is the right to live in dignity, speaking freely, and safely in our homes. We will not be quiet.”