Concerned Africans have called for the rights of Capitol Hill protesters be protected at all cost.

The group condenms call by Newyork Times, CNN and other journalists calling for law enforcement to tackle the protesters.

Such statement, they say, should only come from dictatorship.

The statement reads –

“The rights of the protesters at Capitol Hill must be protected at all costs.

“The call by some journalists, especially from CNN, for law enforcement to do “whatever it takes to clear the Capitol” is unnecessary and undemocratic. Such statements only should only come from dictatorships, which the USA is clearly not.

“Any attempt to tinker with the basic rights of expression of Americans as provided in the First Amendment by coercion or threat, will be met with diplomatic sanctions by the African Union.

“As we continue to observe the unfolding events with keen interest, we enjoin the protesters to ensure that they conduct themselves within the limits offered them by the constitution and rest assured that we stand by them in this historic moment.

Concerned Africans“

Also, activist, Olajide Abiola says –

“Protesters’ are free to burn down courts, public assets, kill and eat Police officers, blockade roads for days in Nigeria and yet CNN and some western anarchists will describe them as peaceful.

“Nothing of such has even happened yet and CNN is already calling them protest violent.

“It took almost 10 days before Governor Sanwoolu declared curfew. Just a few hours of protests and invasion of Capitol Hill and the Mayor has declared curfew.”

At least four people have died after hundreds of supporters of President Donald Trump occupied the US Capitol Building.

Washington, DC police chief Robert Contee said the dead included a woman who was shot by the US Capitol Police on Wednesday, as well as three others who died in “medical emergencies”.

The woman was shot earlier on Wednesday as the mob tried to break through a barricaded door in the Capitol where police were armed on the other side.

She was taken to a hospital with a gunshot wound and later died.