Activist and content creator, Debo Adebayo, popularly known as Mr Macaroni, has joined many others in speaking out against the arrest of human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi.

Sharing his thoughts on the incident, Macaroni alleged that civil matters are now being treated as criminal due to political differences.

On Wednesday, December 4, 2024, Mr Macaroni in a post on his X handle lamented the use of the police by political elites to oppress Nigerians.

His comment comes after the police stormed Farotimi’s office to arrest the political activist over a defamation petition by senior lawyer Afe Babalola.

Farotimi’s arrest upset among many Nigerians who have taken to social media to demand his release.

Macaroni wrote, “Dele Farotimi wrote a book Called “Nigeria and Its Criminal Justice System” and the brazen impunity which the book seeks to address is playing right before our eyes.

How does one describe this insanity?

Using the police to abduct a person from one state to another state, the intimidation and harassment of his staff, seizure of their phones…

How many crimes have been committed here while trying to investigate whether Mr Farotimi actually committed a crime?

For how long will the Nigerian Police continue to allow themselves be used by the “High and Mighty” to oppress Nigerians?

This is what happens when we support that civil matters be treated as criminal matters because of political differences or stanship.

We have opened the season to the rich and influential who can have a Nigerian arrested by the police because the person said that the big man’s fart stinks.

Even people who should know better now abuse power because there are zero consequences for these actions.

Our system of corruption allows the innocent man who hasn’t been proven guilty of committing any crime suffer while the guilty who commits numerous crimes trying to prove that the innocent man committed a crime roams freely.”