Police have teargassed protesters at Lekki tollgate.
Gatekeepers News reports that Operatives of the Nigerian police have teargassed protesters at the Lekki tollgate, Lagos State, South West Nigeria.
The #EndSARS protest of October 2020 was a campaign against police brutality, harassment, extortion and extrajudicial killing by the special anti-robbery squad (SARS).
Nigerians in Lagos, Abuja and some other states poured into the streets on Wednesday to mark the first anniversary of the #EndSARS protest.
Lagos Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, while speaking to journaists said the protesters told him they were going to end the demonstration by 10 am.
Odumosu said “Between 8am and 10am, anything after 10 am is a nuisance.
“I discussed with them and they said they will end the protest by 10 o’clock. Any other person doing it now… the nuisance that have guns, the ones with matchete, hammer, are they protesters or miscreants?
“The protesters are free; they have done their thing and left. Any other person remaining are the miscreants, hoodlums that want to capitalise on that to attack innocent people and start robbing people. We will not allow that.”
