Fifty-one suspects
were arrested after some protesters attacked five policemen in Lagos state on
Monday morning.
The protest held in
Eleko community, Ibeju-Lekki local government area of the state.
Some youth had
protested against the shut down of a construction site in the area following
the lockdown ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari.
In an interview with
TheCable, Bala Elkana, spokesman of the state police command, said the
protesters are workers of a construction site in the Lekki Free Trade zone.
He said they were
expressing annoyance over their inability to work as a result of the lockdown.
Elkana said the
youth deployed violence during the process, leading to the attack against five
policemen.
He said 51 suspects
have been arrested and will soon be charged to court.
“They were
protesting that their construction site was shut down at Lekki Free Trade zone.
They were working there and the place was shutdown, so that was their
annoyance. They are protesting because they want to work and make some money,”
he said.
“Some of the sites
were carrying out some skeletal services and because of COVID-19, they reduced
the number of personnel that would work there because they can’t congest the
place.
“So those youth just
mobilised and accumulated their anger and they went violent. But we quickly
responded. We sent our anti-riot unit to that area and the situation was
brought under control.
“They injured five
police officers but they are fine. We have arrested 51 suspects. We are
investigating and the suspects would soon be in court.”
On March 30,
President Muhammadu Buhari locked down Lagos, Ogun and the federal capital
territory to contain the spread of coronavirus.
The president later
extended the lockdown by another two weeks to further check the spread of the
disease. He extended it by a week on Monday.
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