Rinu Oduala, one of the planners of the #EndSARS protests, has weighed in on allegations that lawyer Femi Falana (SAN) and some protest coordinators received a N100 million bribe from the Lagos State Government.
In 2020, #EndSARS protests were held across the country. On October 20, 2020, protestors battled with security forces at Lagos’ Lekki toll gate.
On Sunday, one social media influencer, Banke Oniru, said on X that Mr Falana encouraged #EndSARS coordinators, including Serah Ibrahim, to collect the N100 million promised.
Oniru criticized Mr Falana, claiming that he was not a’saint’.
“Falana is a constant betrayal of our ideals. Remember he almost frustrated the tribunal,” she claimed.
Her allegation came in the wake of claims made by social media influencer VeryDarkMan that Falana and his son Falz tried to buy presidential pardon for crossdresser Bobrisky when the latter was jailed earlier this year for six months over abuse of the naira.
Reacting to comments by Oniru among others, Oduala wrote on X on Monday: “Femi Falana SAN has been representing protesters and poor Nigerians for free for decades.
“Attaching his name to a 100m bribe offered by Sanwo-Olu and Lagos state government in secret to shot and dead protesters to shush them up is the lowest APC can go.
“APC denied people ever died during the protests. They went behind to offer the shot and dead money. They are coming out today to say the wounded people collected money to discredit and trying to use the SAN name to trend that because he supported #EndSARS.
“The APC government never recovered from the protests and will use every medium to tarnish it. If not, check all APC troll accounts right now. Their agenda is the protests. Are we even connecting the dots? Not sure.”
