Protesters Threaten To Start Another Protest If Soldiers Who Killed Protesters Are Not Arrested

Date: 28-10-2020 7:30 pm (3 years ago) | Author: onuigbo felicia
- at 28-10-2020 07:30 PM (3 years ago)
(f)

The federal government and the Nigerian Army have been warned that another protest will take place if soldiers who killed protesters at Lekki toll gate are not arrested and prosecuted.
 
A coalition of civil society groups made this known on Wednesday after giving the government fifteen-day ultimatum to fish out the soldiers that shot the #EndSARS, protesters at Lekki Toll Gate Lagos.
 
The groups comprising the Campaign for Democracy, CD, Human Rights, Liberty Access and Peace Defenders’ Foundation, HURIDE, Civil Liberties Organization, CLO, and Igbo Elders Forum, IEF, threatened another protest at the expiration of the ultimatum.
 
They flayed the Lagos State government and the Nigerian Army for feigning ignorance of persons behind the shooting when in actual sense they were united in sending troops to Lekki toll gate, which they said the Army finally exposed on Tuesday.
 
Speaking on behalf of the groups in Onitsha, Publicity Secretary of CD, and Chairman CD, South East Zone, Dede Uzor Uzor, the group also said the Federal Government should set up a fund to compensate the families.
 
He said,
Quote
“The protest was peaceful and very well organized, until some suspected thugs sponsored by people with a vested interest in government, started attacking them and instigating the supporters of the protester to violence, before the soldiers of the Nigerian Army, were drafted to open fire on them.

“The story is no more about whether soldiers were involved or not, the Army through Major Olaniyi on Tuesday revealed soldiers involvement and who invited them, we are now concerned about the soldiers or officers that carried out the shooting.

“This kind of shooting of protesting civilians does not happen in a Democratic government, so we are calling on President Muhammadu Buhari and the Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, to within fifteen days, fish out Army officials that were responsible for the shooting of the protesters at Lekki Tollgate.

“If at the expiration of fifteen-day, from now to November 1st, 2020, the soldiers of the Nigerian Army who carried out the despicable shooting of the protesters were not shown to Nigerians, we will organize the mother of all protests that Nigerians have never seen in its history, to show to the world that Nigeria is not a banana republic and Nigerians are not happy that their citizens are being killed like rats.”

Posted: at 28-10-2020 07:30 PM (3 years ago) | Addicted Hero
- fineboy77 at 28-10-2020 11:47 PM (3 years ago)
Online (m)
The initial protest as spontanous with no leader,let it remain so.

Posted: at 28-10-2020 11:47 PM (3 years ago) | Addicted Hero
Reply
- Baye77 at 29-10-2020 09:44 AM (3 years ago)
(m)
Whoever still thinks that the first protest was a success is gullible. The protest is supposed to be peaceful with well defined demands. At the end of the day, it turned into a religious/political/ethnic crusade and chaos resulted. We protested because we want our politicians to be responsible and serve not loot, but IPOB and the likes that hijacked the protest are in no way better than these politicians. They are all there for their selfish interest.
Posted: at 29-10-2020 09:44 AM (3 years ago) | Hero
Reply

fire TRENDING GISTS fire

TODAY'S TOP
  1. Holy Spirit Always Gives Me Lotto Number Whenever We Don't Have Anything To Eat -Efotete Family

  2. 70 Passengers Found Vomiting Bug During Flight From Mauritius To Frankfurt

  3. I'm Open To Dating WOMEN - Khloe Kardashian Announces

  4. Nigeria Man Narrates How His Dad Impregnated His Ex-girlfriend And Took Her Out Of The Country

  5. “Something Foul Is Going On” – Very Dark Man Reveals Update On Nickie Dabarbie’s Whereabouts

  6. Nasboi Opens Up On Why He Thought Sydney Talker Was A Yahoo Boy

  7. Arsenal v Bournemouth: English Premier League Match,Team News,Goal Scorers and Stats

  8. Manchester City v Wolves: English Premier League Match,Team News,Goal Scorers and Stats


THIS WEEK
  1. Stop Lagos-Calabar Highway Project - Obi Tells Tinubu As Demolition of Landmark Centre Begins

  2. "Stop Inciting Igbos Against Tinubu Govt" – Umahi Slams Peter Obi

  3. FRESH: Nollywood Lovers, IK Ogbonna & Ini Edo Reportedly Engaged

  4. MAY 1st; Peter Obi Celebrates Nigerian Workers, Sends Message

  5. Peter Obi Reacts To The Deaths Of 35 Nigerians In Horrific Kogi, Enugu Road Clashes

  6. “Wizkid Undergoing Mental Illness, No Longer Together With Jada – Isaac Fayose Reveals

  7. Watch As Lions Have S3x On Top Of Safari Truck Full Of People

  8. How A Nigerian Woman Loses Her Marketing Job For Failing to Meet N300m Monthly Target

  9. Lagos Gov Sanwo Olu Appoints Wasiu Ayinde's Daughter, Basirat As SSA To Gov On Tourism

  10. Kenya Gets First Female Air Force Commander, Major General Fatuma Gaiti Ahmed


TOP MEMBERS: