Comrade Segun Oluwasanmi is a Media officer of the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights (CDHR), Lagos Branch and a member of the Gani Fawehinmi Organization (GAFORG); a seasoned activist who was destined and divinely called into human liberation. He was assigned the task, in repeated dreams, to make the people smile which he had displayed from his youthful age during which time he would force the “NEPA – oppressors at the time” to deal justly with the people at Amukoko by preventing the NEPA staff from carrying out illegal disconnection of the houses after a reasonable and substantial payment had been paid on the monthly bill – against the usual act of the NEPA staff who would insist on 100% payment – even as a teenager in the 1990s, having gotten the hint from his father who was a NEPA staff that it was wrong to be disconnected after a reasonable payment had been done.
Comrade Segun Oluwasanmi later founded and became the Coordinator of Amukoko Intellectual Forum (AIF) in the mid-1990s with Sharafadeen Akano as the deputy and Owomi Joshua and Segun Adeosun as members/co-founders. *AIF* was a pressure group with which rights of the people was championed at the local level of Amukoko.
Comrade Oluwasanmi went on to become the Welfare Director of Students Union, Osun State College of Education, Ilesa in 1995; Bailiff of the Judicial Council in 1999 and Member of the Students Representative Council in 2000 at the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) where he continued his activism while belonging to an ideological caucus called “Positive Thinkers” on FUTA campus.
Comrade Oluwasanmi presently and actively champions human rights activism in all ramifications. He believes that with adequate information available at the disposal of the citizens, they will initiate and conclude the process to their self-liberation.
This led to his starting “thebittertruth” programmes on the Youtube and other social media platforms in which he provides soul, mind, spirit, emotional and body-liberating information required for an individual to kick-start his/her personal freedom from oppressors, through experienced-gathered & carefully researched and delivered information.
Comrade Oluwasanmi presently has three different channels to empower the people with information. These are – “thebittertrutruth” where he sensitizes people to their rights and how to engage/embark on self-liberation –YouTube/ Tiktok/Instagram : @thebittertruthsay, Twitter :@bittertruth348 and Facebook : The Bittertruth – Otitotokoro; a Comedy channel- in which he does comedy on repentance & correcting the ills in our society especially by people in power – government, private or public – YouTube :@pastordream; and a Training channel – where he drops clips of online/physical trainings on cybersecurity & IT/Process Audit -YouTube :@princeo6823. He has upload several useful videos in these regards.
Comrade Oluwasanmi has regularly live with integrity and with passion for opposing corruption and whistle blow when necessary. He demonstrated this in a work environment where people believed that the owner was a thief and they must steal their share.
Comrade Oluwasanmi’s stance against corruption earned him discrimination, harassment, humiliation, privileges & rights denials with attempts on his life – spiritually and physically as he would seat and the chair would be hot under his buttock; he was shot in the dream and eventually poisoned which he survived; although his hardwork got him awards including financial; certificate of honour, letter of recognition and many commendations.
Around 2012, Comrade Oluwasanmi brought a branch of CRBAN (Coalition of Residents and Business Owners Association of Nigeria) from Ijesa, Surulere to Aguda. CRBAN was a pressure group founded by late Dawudu and some residents in Ijesa to prevent the extortion and exploitation of the people by the ekedc. He became the first deputy Chairman in Aguda, after an elderly man was made the Chairman for strategic reason. Comrade Oluwasanmi and others in the group effectively used the medium to curtail and contain the excesses of the ekedc in the extortion of the residents via over-billing from estimation. The ekedc was forced to provide reasonable biling amoung for those without a prepaid meter following repeated engagement/jawjaw, to get the ekedc to provide the residents with free prepaid meters eventually after resident were united and requested to pay N2,500 as the reasonable estimated, fair and just amount at the time by those with postpaid meters while disconnection was prevented for months in the area after which prepaid meters were supplied upon engagements with the ekedc including litigation.
He has since then continually gotten justice for people on electricity billing and metering. A lot have gotten refunds of excess payments made to the distribution companies – majorly ekedc reaging between N700,000 and N2,000,000 while many benefited from free prepaid meters issuance when they could have been ordinarily extorted.
Comrade Oluwasanmi joined the CDHR at this time upon his introduction to the group by Comrade Samuel Adeoba of Aguda Unit who associated with the CRBAN being a progressive himself. Comrade Oluwasanmi has leveraged on his membership of the CDHR to further his service to humanity and has gotten justice for many and liberated the oppressed, even at his own cost.
Professionally, Comrade Oluwasanmi is an Educational Consultant, a purposeful Information Security/Cybersecurity Consultant, Risk Manager and Information Systems Auditor, Revenue Assurance and Database Administrator with over 20 years of progressive experience (and 10 years leadership experience) within the Banking and Consulting/Service Industries, banking operations, Information Technology (IT), Information Systems Control, Application Security & Database Control, Information Systems & Process Audit – with specific expertise in Technology Acquisition and Implementation, the Design/Implementation of Security frameworks, Audit and Control procedures, Risk Assessment, Process Assessment/Enhancement and Gap Detection with appropriate and adequate recommendations for improvement that translates to profit maximization and elimination of cost incurred through rework.
He is a Database Administrator with demonstrated success designing and implementing solutions that improve business functionality. Possesses diversified technical background with proven ability to implement technologies that decrease costs, increase performance and positively affects the bottom line.
Comrade Oluwasanmi had evidently deployed over 50 suspicious transactions proggrammes/alerts using the PL/SQL; audited and reviewed over 5000 processes, Systems and Platforms – applications & databases, servers, etc for improvement and security assurance across organizations with security framework implementations; investigated several fraud with recoup/recovery where it was thought to be impossible, among other achievements with notable appreciation and referential commendations.
