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#LekkiMassacre: Nigerians Remember Lekki Toll Gate Incident Five Months After

  • The #EndSARS was a demonstration against police brutality and extrajudicial killings
  • It peaked amid the COVID-19 partial lock down in October 2020

Today marks exactly five months officers of the Nigerian Army stormed the Lekki Tollgate to enforce a curfew imposed by the Lagos State Government on October 20, 2020.

The Lagos State Government had announced the restriction of movement following widespread violence in some parts of the state after hoodlums took the advantage of the demonstrations to perpetrate wanton chaos in the state.

The soldiers reportedly opened fire on unarmed protesters for declining to leave the toll gate. After several back and forth between the government and some activists in the country as well as international news medium, CNN, the Nigerian government has insisted there were no casualties on the night.

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For many weeks blames flew around on whose order the operation was carried out. The Lagos State Governor, Babjide Sanwo-Olu and the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu had been fingered to have had foreknowledge of the operation.

Five months down the line, Nigerians have taken to social media to remember victims and demand that the government take responsibility.

The #LekkiMassacre has since garnered over five thousand tweets on twitter as of the time of filing this report.

Eko Hot Blog culled some comments from Twitter:

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