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About Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim
- Gbenga Toyosi Olawepo (born 28 June 1965) is a Nigerian human rights activist and businessman. The name Olawepo first made the headlines when as an anti-apartheid activist, he and three other students' leaders of the University of Lagos were clamped into the over-crowded Nigeria Police cell in April 1989 after an anti apartheid protest.
- The military regime that was growing increasingly repressive and intolerant of freedom of expression in Nigeria then ordered the detention of the student activist.
- The Education Editor of Guardian Express – Joe Idika- published an exclusive report on the plight of the quartet -Olawepo, Oyerinde, Akhaine and Ewebiyi- in what was an exposé on the deplorable condition under which detainees are held in the Nigerian Police facilities.
- The report was also a story of the extraordinary courage of the quartet displayed during the visit of Mrs.Thatcher over her government's pro-apartheid policy, which the student-labour protest was all about.[1][2]
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