Freedom Park, Broad Street
A foremost prison on Broad Street that had great inmates like Chief Obafemi Awolowo and Nnamdi Azikiwe has been transformed to Freedom Park and a tourist spot, writes ADEMOLA ONI What better name would suffice for a former prison that once housed suspected and hardened criminals, but a complex where the voice of liberation could be heard? The name Freedom Park seems apt for a complex that once held in captivity not only criminals, but freedom agitators like the late Herbert Macaulay, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Obafemi Awolowo and even Adeyemo Alakija, who were branded rebels by Nigeria’s then colonial overlords.
While some of the activists were held in the prison before Nigeria’s independence in 1960, Awolowo was incarcerated in the 52-cell facility again while standing trial for treasonable felony. On Broad Street, Lagos, a federal prison once held in its cells, various forms of personalities, who were suspected to have perpetrated different kinds of evil against other persons or against the society.
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