#EndSARS: Nobody can stop us from occupying Lekki Toll Gate on Saturday
State, FG issue warnings
The organisers of the #EndSARS Season 2 protest have insisted that they will go ahead with their rally slated for the Lekki Toll Gate on Saturday.
This is against the backdrop of strong warnings coming from the state and federal governments, as well as the police that there should be no form of rally at the toll gate.
The state said it would not tolerate any form of protest that could lead to loss of lives and destruction of properties.
Already, another group, under the aegis of #DefendLagos has also served notice to organise a counter-protest at the same Lekki toll gate on Saturday.
In a statement on Thursday, the organisers of the #EndSARS Season 2 protests accused the Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, of seeking to cover up the alleged killing of scores of protesters at the toll gate on October 20, 2020.
“After committing genocide by killing scores of people who were peacefully protesting at Lekki toll gate and other parts of Lagos, Governor Sanwo-Olu and other oppressors want to spit on the dead and dance on the blood of the innocent by reopening the gate to be collecting their blood money again”, they said.
They said that despite overwhelming and highly compelling evidence showing how several protesters were shot by the military, no single military official had been brought to book, nor compensation paid to the families of the deceased.
Other grouses of the organisers include high rate of unemployment among the youth, the ban on cryptocurrency, a means of income for some young people and the purported plan to increase petrol price to N190 per litre.
However, the Federal Government through the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said government would not allow any further resort to violence in the name of #EndSARSprotest.
Addressing a press conference, Mohammed, said while peaceful protests were constitutional, violent protests were not.
In the text of the briefing tagged ‘Perpetration of violence under the guise of #EndSARS: Never again – FG,” he said the chances that any peaceful protest would be hijacked at this time were very high.
Citing intelligence report, the minister said some Nigerian activists had linked up with others outside Nigeria, “including subversive elements”, with a view to destabilising the country.
