#EndSARS protest has hit Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial city.
NewsOne Nigeria recalls that a protest seeking an end to police brutality in Nigeria and also an end to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), a notorious unit of the Nigerian Police with a long record of abuses, rocked major cities and states in Nigeria in October.
The protest in its wake, left many Nigerians injured and some dead when men in army uniform stormed the Lekki toll gate, the camping ground of the Lagos protesters, opening fire on the peaceful protesters who were waving the Nigerian flag on October 20.
Though the Nigerian Army had denied ever being involved in the said incidence, however, video evidence shows otherwise, with the Army later admitting that its men were at the toll gate. The Nigerian Army confirmed this during the sitting of the Lagos judicial panel on police brutality.
The death recorded at the Lekki toll gate which had since been described as a massacre by some, led to the end of the protest nationwide.
Apparently displeased with the way the #EndSARS protest ended through the use of security agents nationwide, Nigerians vowed to return to the streets for the second wave of #EndSARS protest.
Today, some Nigerians have returned to the streets of Lagos, to continue the protest despite warnings from President Muhammadu Buhari and the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) against the protest.