Organisers of the EndSARS protest anniversary in Lagos State have revealed their plans for the event, which is expected to take place tomorrow. Part of the plan is a vehicular procession that would drive through the Lekki Tollgate, where EndSARS protesters were shot at on the night of October 20, 2020. Armed policemen are keeping watch around…
Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to stop the police from disrupting the planned EndSARS anniversary protests. Femi Falana challenged President Buhari to stand by his oath of office, adding that the Nigeria Police Force lacks the power to ban public protest in the country. In a…
Policemen on Thursday, October 14, 2021, took over the Lekki Tollgate area on the Lekki-Epe Expressway in Lagos State. The move is in response to plans to mark the anniversary of the EndSARS protest in October last year with another protest at the Lekki Tollgate, where security operatives opened fire on protesters. The Police Public Relations Officer,…
A member of the Lagos State SARS Panel, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has kicked against the threat by the police to stop the EndSARS anniversary protest. In a statement shared on his Facebook page, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, said the threat by the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu is not proper in a democracy. Adegboruwa maintained that democracy is…
A security consulting company hired by the Lagos State Government has said that no military weapon was used on EndSARS protesters on the night of October 20 last year when soldiers disrupted the protest at the Lekki Tollgate. Tonye Willie-Harry, who works for the United Kingdom-based Oxygene Consulting, made this known while analysing the report his company…
Action continued Tuesday, September 7, 2021, at the Lagos State Panel of Inquiry and Restitution for Victims of Police Brutality and Other Related Matters. The sitting featured hearing of petitions arising from the EndSARS protest in October last year, and a medical doctor at the National Orthopedic Hospital was among those who testified before the panel. Doctor…