“We want to warn Sowore and his group to stay away from Lagos or face the full weight of the law,” said the police commissioner.
The police commissioner, Olohundare Jimoh, gave the assurance during the ‘show of force’ by the command on Monday in Ikeja.
He said, “The full story of people who burnt down TVC in 2020 will be told one day, with gory clips and images…majority of them have been hunted down and executed.
He added that many of the protesters are attention seekers who want moments in the media.
Instead of heeding the protesters’ calls for reform, Nigeria’s security forces unleashed a series of brutal assaults in various parts of the country.
We adopted the least harmful method of crowd dispersal, following the failure of verbal persuasion – the use of teargas. Not a single live ammunition was fired!
However, when he returned to pick his car, he was accosted, dragged, tortured and manhandled by the officers who refused to heed his entreaties that he was an Uber driver and only wanted to retrieve
As part of Nigeria’s historic #EndSARS demonstration, Amnesty International estimates that no less than 38 persons lost their lives across the country on October 20, 2020, alone.
Mr Mohammed’s statement comes days after BBC Africa Eye published a documentary featuring interviews with bandit leaders.
“Do you know what these animals are busy doing? Announcing that they want to be president…want to start collecting tollgate money.”
