On Monday, armed police officers and the State Security Department prevented members of the ' Revolution Now ' group from bringing their protest to Osogbo roads, Osun State Capital, reports from Punch Metro. The demonstrators had previously spoken to newsmen in Fagbewesa, Osogbo, led by Olawale Adebayo.

Shortly after the address, the protesters were about storming Olaiya Junction to kickstart the protest, when armed DSS men and police arrived and stopped them.

Vanguard reports, Police officers at the scene of the protest allegedly descended on an elderly woman named Sariyu Akanmu as well as on other journalists, including a journalist with Newsdirect newspaper, Mr. Sunday Oguntuyi.

The elderly woman was said to be hawking ‘fufu’ but later joined the protesters. But a female police officer at the scene is said to have descended on her.

But when some of the journalists sought to rescue the woman, the police, reportedly harassed them with tear-gas.

The security operatives had stopped the protesters from embarking on procession across the streets of the state capital, restricting them to the correspondents’ chapel, where the protesters earlier addressed journalists.

Meanwhile, some of the protesters were equally, allegedly stopped by a team of security operatives including the DSS and the police, from heading back home after the protest.