The Federal Government has vowed to crush any fresh strike
at Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos by #EndSARS protesters.
It warned Nigerians against participating in any protest to
block the toll gate.
It said all security agencies have been put on the alert to
curtail any protest.
It said protests are constitutionally allowed only in
designated places but not toll gates.
It confirmed intelligence report which showed that the
latest protest might be hijacked to cause violence nationwide.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alh. Lai Mohammed
spoke in Abuja against the backdrop of a renewed protest at Lekki Toll Gate as
from Saturday.
The Minister said: “However, any further resort to violence
in the name of #EndSARS will not be tolerated this time.
” The security agents are ready for any eventuality. A
situation in which six soldiers and 37 policemen were murdered in cold blood by
hoodlums will not repeat itself.
” The attack, looting and razing of 269 private and public
property will not happen again. The killing of 57 civilians will not be
re-enacted.”
” No government anywhere will allow a repeat of the kind of
destruction, killing and maiming wrought by the hijackers of #EndSARS protests
last year.
” After all, only one policeman – (plus four others) – was
killed in the invasion of the US Capitol in January, yet the FBI has continued
to hunt down and prosecute the perpetrators. No life is more important than the
other.”
Mohammed warned those planning the protest to shelve it.
He said intelligence report indicated that some of those
planners are non-Nigerians
He added: ” We therefore strongly warn those who are
planning to re-occupy Lekki Toll Gate on Saturday to desist.
” We know that many of those who have been loudest on social
media in advertising the plan to reconvene in Lagos on Saturday are not even in
Nigeria.
“They are elsewhere around the world fanning the embers of
violence and inciting gullible people back home. No one should fall for their
antics.
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