The Lagos State Police Command has threatened to shut down the Afrika Shrine, Ikeja, over the hosting of a meeting to evaluate the lessons and tasks arising from the recent #EndSARS protest.

The programme, which is organized by Seun Kuti, son of Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, was initially scheduled to be held on Tuesday at the Afrika Shrine.

The police have now threatened to shut down the venue if the programme holds.

Seun revealed that the police invited his sister and threatened to close down the facility if the assembly holds.

In a letter to the Kuti household and supervisor of the African Shrine, the police stated the programme was not welcome and shall be tagged a deliberate motion to sabotage the restoration of peace in Lagos.

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The police recalled the latest violence arising from the #EndSARS protest as its motive for ordering the suspension of the programme.

The letter read:"I write under the corporate Social Responsibilities and your precedented support to Alausa Police Station about the Mass Meeting of a Movement of the People tagged #ENDSARS MOVEMENT: LESSONS AND TASK which is to emerged on Tuesday 17 November, 2020 by 12Noon Venue: African Shrine, Ikeja, Lagos State

"I want to quickly recall your attention to the recent #ENDSARS PROTEST NATIONWIDE which staged the Nation in the last Five weeks and end up been Violent, causing multifarious destruction, looting and

burning down of Government and Private properties within the borders of the state as well as causing Deaths and injuries to both Security agent and innocent law abiding Citizens.

"It is on this premise that, I write that such a gathering or meeting planned to be hosted at your venue is not welcome at this perilous time when the security of the nation is trying to find her fonts to stabilize all threat to life and properties

"You are hereby warned to suspend such gathering as any infraction that may emerge from this gathering will be tag a deliberate action to sabotage the transition and restoration of the Peace in Lagos State by the Lagos state Government and the Nigeria Police Force."

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Reacting to the letter by the police, Seun said he will go ahead with his programme but at a different venue.

Seun wrote on Twitter: “So yesterday (Sunday, November 15) the government called my eldest sister @yeniakuti and threatened to close the shrine if I hold my event there tmr (Tuesday, November 17) and also sent a letter to back it up.

“I respect my family’s decision not to hold the event but I will still go ahead with all the other organisations to launch the Movement of the People tomorrow and start our political resistance to the tyranny of this oppressive regime.

“This is a meeting, just a meeting of organisations and they are basically banning the right of association. Why are they afraid of the people organising? What is democratic about this act?

“The last time we tried to launch the government quickly called curfew and this time they have used threats but you can’t stop the will of the people.”

The organisations expected at the launch include Nigeria Resistance Movement (NRM), Socialist Vanguard Tendency(SVT), Movement for Socialist Alternative(MSA), Joint Action Front (JAF) among others.