Protest: Lekki Tollgate Quiet As Graveyard (Video)

Amid the ongoing nationwide protest tagged, $#EndBadGovernance” in Nigeria, viral videos on social media captured a deserted scenery at Lekki Tollgate, with no protester in sight, on Thursday.

Lekki Toll Gate began to trend on X  because of the heavy police presence at the graveyard-looking scene.

GWG.ng reports that protesters are yet to show up at Lekki Tollgate as at the time of filing this report.

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Meanwhile, protesters have been actively demonstrating in other places like Ketu, Ikeja, and other areas of Lagos State.

Speculations allude that the bloodshed during the  #The EndSars protest at Lekki Tollgate in October 2020, may have contributed to the reason for the little or no turnout of protesters at the location.

GWG.ng recalls that on Oct. 20, 2020, the Nigerian army opened fire on a gathering of protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos, Nigeria. This was the culmination of weeks of protests by Nigerians, young and old, against police brutality by a special unit of the Nigerian police, known as the #EndSARS movement.

The Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) was originally created in 1992 to combat robberies and other serious crimes, but at some point they were criticised as being a corrupt unit that carries out extrajudicial killings.

After the Lekki Toll Gate shootings, a panel was set up by Lagos Court of Arbitration to investigate the shootings and cases of police brutality and, last week, the findings of the panel were leaked.

According to the report, the shootings by the Nigerian army can be considered a “massacre”, a decision that’s brought some relief for activists and young people who participated in the protests. Many of them took to social media to express how validated they feel by the ruling, and their anger towards the Nigerian army.

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