#OccupyLekkiTollgate organisers
said they are undaunted by efforts by threats by security operatives and the
government to stop the fresh protest.
According to the organisers, the
cause of the planned protest is beyond the ruling of the Lagos State Judicial
Panel probing alleged killings of #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki toll gate on
October 20, 2020.
They noted that the ban on
cryptocurrency accounts among other reasons triggered their action.
They gave the reasons in a press
statement made available to our correspondent titled, ‘EndSARS Season 2; Why we
will #OccupyLekkiTollGate on Saturday – Campaigners’, on Thursday.
They added that not even a
counter-protest under the aegis of #DefendLagos will stop them.
The statement read, “After
committing genocide by killing scores of people who were peacefully protesting
at Lekki Tollgate and other parts of Lagos, Governor Sanwo-Olu and other
oppressors want to spit on the dead and dance on the blood of the innocent by
reopening the yahoo gate to be collecting their blood money as again.
“We say NO! We are undaunted! We
will be occupying Lekki Tollgate again starting from Saturday February 13. We
urge all well-meaning Nigerians to storm back all the barricades as our rulers
have shown that they can never change. Since the #EndSARS, they are yet to
effect any of the promises. Police brutality is still raging and SARS is still
operating.
“Despite overwhelming and highly
compelling evidence showing how several protesters were shot by the military,
no single military personnel has been brought to book.
“Deaths have been established and
many victims of the Lekki shootings have surfaced, yet neither the victims nor
families of our deceased colleagues have got justice.
“After close to five months of
sitting, the judicial panel meant to inquire into the Lekki massacre has
refused to deliver justice to victims of the massacre most of whom have either
lost their limbs due to gun wounds or have become deceased.
“Government has refused to
provide employment for young people, yet they went ahead to ban the most
promising source of income of young people; cryptocurrency.
“Nigerians are extremely poorer
and yet the cost of food is on the high side with increased cost of electricity
that only produces darkness. Petrol price is being increased as marketers want
it at #190 per litre.
“Nigerians are no longer secured
in any part of the country; when they are not being harassed or extrajudicially
murdered by police, they are being kidnapped, maimed, and killed by bandits.
“Today, the life of cows has
become more valuable than those of Nigerians even as our streets and
communities have fallen to the rule of kidnappers and bandits. The Nigerian
government now negotiates and enriches terrorists and bandits while chasing
after, arresting, shooting and killing protesters.
“It is to this end that we call on you all to
come out enmasse to demand not just justice for victims and fallen heroes of
the October 20 killings but that all involved in this heinous criminality be
brought to book. Come out to demand the right to life and to exist in a country
that respects our rights as citizens, abhors police brutality/extrajudicial
killings, provides us with security, decent jobs with good wages and other such
socio-economic rights that come with being a citizen.”
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