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    #ENDSARS PROTESTS 2020- ONE YEAR AFTER: Group Demands Arrests, Prosecution of Trigger-Happy Officers At Lekki

    Famous ReportersBy Famous ReportersOctober 20, 2021No Comments7 Mins Read
    #Endsars protesters at Lekki Tollgate, Lagos State, on October 20, 2020.
    #Endsars protesters at Lekki Tollgate, Lagos State, on October 20, 2020.
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    #ENDSARS PROTESTS 2020- ONE YEAR AFTER: Group Demands Arrests, Prosecution of Trigger-Happy Officers At Lekki

    Worried by the obvious negligence of the President Mohammadu Buhari’s led government of the All Progressives Congress, APC, towards the brutal massacring of unarmed #Endsars protester at Lekki tollgate, on October, 20, 2020, a group known as ‘Action Group On Free Civic Space’ has called for the immediate arrest and speedy prosecution of the trigger happy Security Operatives.

    This is even as the 2020 #Endsars protesters observe their one year anniversary today, October 20.

    In an address, made available to Famousreporters.com, the group condemned in totality the brutal attacks launched on thousands of unarmed young protestors demonstrating against police brutality during the October 2020 #ENDSARS protests, by security agents on the dreadful night of October 20, 2020.

    “We hereby demand the immediate arrest and speedy prosecution of every person responsible for perpetrating the horrid crime of police brutality in
    Nigeria and most importantly, the murderous attacks of October 20, 2020, now referred to as the
    Lekki Tollgate Massacre.”

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    The address read in detail:

    ACTION GROUP ON FREE CIVIC SPACE

    ENDSARS PROTESTS 2020: ONE YEAR AFTER

    October 20, 2021
    Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen,
    The Action Group on Free Civic Space (AGFCS) once again condemns in very strong terms the
    brutal attacks launched on thousands of unarmed young protestors demonstrating against police brutality during the October 2020 #ENDSARS protests, particularly at the Lekki Tollgate Plaza in
    Lagos on the dreadful night of October 20, 2020. Indeed, forensic experts engaged at the Lagos State
    Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality have confirmed that live military-grade bullets were
    fired at protestors and the cartridge casing obtained from the Lekki Tollgate are of the same calibre
    as the Nigerian Army’s live ammunition. What is most worrying is that one year later, despite
    overwhelming evidence gathered from earlier on-ground investigations, video footage, eyewitness testimonies, hospital reports, and most recently forensic reports that Nigerian security forces opened fire on protestors, no one has been held accountable. We hereby demand the immediate arrest and speedy prosecution of every person responsible for perpetrating the horrid crime of police brutality in
    Nigeria and most importantly, the murderous attacks of October 20, 2020, now referred to as the
    Lekki Tollgate Massacre.
    A year ago today, we witnessed the eruption of one of the most powerful mass movements in the
    history of our nation – despite the turbulent start of last year which was marked by the coronavirus
    pandemic, our country, confronted head-on, another pandemic within the coronavirus pandemic – the
    pervasive menace of police brutality mostly perpetrated by the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad
    (SARS) unit of the Nigeria Police Force. First mobilised through social media, the #EndSARS protests
    shook major cities in the country for days in October until the demonstrations were murderously
    aborted when unknown soldiers opened live fire on peaceful protestors at the Lekki Toll Gate, Lagos
    State – a day we will never forget!
    The National Executive Council (NEC) had in the wake of the violent dispersal of peaceful protestors
    in 2020 directed states to constitute judicial panels of Inquiry to investigate complaints against SARS
    and other police units. However, the spate of events that have assaulted public consciousness since the
    demise of the protests in 2020 challenges the sincerity of Nigerian government’s promises to address
    the legitimate demands of Nigerian youths as per, initiate far-reaching reforms addressing police
    brutality and other ingrained structural problems in the security sector, and engage in constructive
    dialogue with citizens to find lasting solutions to other social injustices prevalent in the country.
    For instance, security operatives have continued to criminalise and brutalise protestors, engage in
    extra-judicial killings and offensive shoot-on-sight rhetoric despite the passionate marches against
    police brutality last year. In similar context is the matter of the Judicial Panel of inquiries constituted
    in the aftermath of the #ENDSARS protests, despite the conclusion of panel proceedings across 28
    states in the country bar Lagos State and submission of recommendations to the Federal Executive
    Council and state governments, nothing tangible been done to implement the recommendations of the panel reports – consequently, compensations due to many victims of police brutality have remained
    unpaid with guilty officers like James Nwafor and Ugochukwu Ozuode amongst other security
    operatives indicted for their legacies of cruelty at the various panels, still roaming free, unaccountable
    for their many crimes against humanity.
    If there was anything beyond the nauseating horror of police violence that the flood of protests
    exposed last year, it is indeed the frightening reality that constitutionally protected rights and civil liberties once enjoyed by Nigerians have deteriorated to the lowest points. As of today, the digital
    database – www.closingspaces.org – records an alarming number of 435 incidents of crackdowns on
    civic actors and Nigeria’s civic space with vicious attacks directed at freedom of expression,
    association, and assembly, and most significantly in recent times, media and digital rights.
    Furthermore, preliminary findings from The Security Playbook, a soon-to-be-released report of the
    AGFCS, reveal that we have now progressed into a dangerous era of digital unfreedom unmatched by
    any period in the history of our democratic journey as a country. This much we have seen with
    consistent censorship of internet and media freedoms in the country, the unconstitutional ban of Twitter and many draconian policies aimed at gagging the press. Perhaps, a more troubling
    knowledge is the fact that Nigeria has now become a surveillance state judging from its misuse of
    digital laws, technologies, and importation of sophisticated hacking tools to arbitrarily intercept
    communications of targeted civic actors, illegally monitor opposition voices in government, silence
    dissent and, generally restrict people’s right of free expression and access to information, especially
    on cyberspaces.
    At this juncture, the AGFCS will like to remind the Nigerian government that democratic freedoms
    are not gifts bestowed to people by illiberal state actors but fundamental rights guaranteed to every citizen under the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, as amended. Accordingly, the Nigerian government must recommit to its sacred trust of duty by upholding the rights, dignity,
    freedoms and well-being of every Nigerian above all parochial interests. Finally, the AGFCS continues
    to stand in firm solidarity with victims and survivors of police brutality and other heinous crimes
    against humanity in Nigeria and once again urge the Nigerian government to seize the moment of
    this significant day to:
    • Divorce itself from the undemocratic and despotic inclination to target and oppress
    individuals, activists, dissenting voices and civil society when they speak up, advocate for
    accountability from government or organise for lawful demonstrations.
    • Fulfil its promises to citizens by bringing to book all erring security officers indicted at the
    various Judicial Commissions of Inquiry
    • Restore hope in victims of police brutality by fully implementing the recommendations for
    compensation submitted by all Panels of Inquiry set up in the country
    • Engage in dialogue with all aggrieved parties and all stakeholders to chart a new path to
    resolve the insecurity challenges and ethnic discontent that ails the country
    • Release all #ENDSARS protestors still unlawfully imprisoned for daring to challenge an
    oppressive status quo
    • Unconditionally lift the suspension of Twitter in Nigeria and commit to opening up space for
    citizens to participate in governance and engage in constructive dialogue
    SIGNATORIES

    1. BUILDING BLOCKS FOR PEACE FOUNDATION
    2. ENTREPRENEURSHIP INITIATIVE FOR AFRICAN YOUTHS
    3. YOUTHS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY CENTRE
    4. SPACES FOR CHANGE
    5. FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS, ADVOCACY & DEVELOPMENT
    6. SBM INTELLIGENCE
    7. ACE & VANGUARD LEGAL PRACTITIONERS
    8. RULE OF LAW AND ACCOUNTABILITY ADVOCACY CENTRE
    9. BRAIN BUILDERS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE
    10. NOPRIN FOUNDATION
    11. WORLD IMPACT DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
    12. ELIXIR TRUST FOUNDATION
    13. VISION SPRINGS INITIATIVES
    14. PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT PROJECTS
    15. CENTRE FOR ADVANCEMENT OF DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS
    16. ISLAMIC INITIATIVES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION
    17. ERITAI FOUNDATION
    18. RURAL AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES.
    19. Below are copies of the address
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