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People hold placards as they demonstrate in the street to protest against police brutality in Lagos, Nigeria, on Tuesday, October 20, 2020. After 13 days of protests against police brutality, authorities have imposed a 24-hour curfew. hours in Lagos, Nigeria. larger city as steps are taken to stop the escalating violence. (AP Photo / Domingo Alamba)
Police have advised parents and guardians to discourage their children and wards from protesting in Lagos.
Following the violence that followed the EndSARS protest in Nigeria, the Lagos State Police Command has vowed to resist any form of protest or procession under any disguise in the state.
Police, in a statement signed by Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the Force’s public relations officer in Lagos on Thursday, November 5, 2020, said Lagos is still nurturing wounds from the ravages that followed the Endsars protests in the state.
Describing the ‘Endsars violence’ as dangerous and counterproductive, police said they are aware that a group of people have concluded plans to orchestrate another set of violence in the state to further the violence unleashed in the state on Wednesday, October 21. 2020.
The police, therefore, warned any individual, group of students or any group who wanted to organize protests in any way to desist from such a plan.
The command also advised parents and guardians to discourage their children and wards from waging protests in the state.
The statement says; “The Lagos State Police Command has pledged to resist any form of planned protest, procession or gathering under any guise or nomenclature in Lagos State, as the Lagos government and people still feed the wounds of the recent Endsars violence that wreaked havoc across the state.
“The command wishes to inform the general public that based on intelligence gathering from the relevant intelligence agencies, some unpatriotic elements or groups of individuals have concluded plans to orchestrate another set of violence in the state in support of the recent violence of Endsars, which has been analyzed as dangerous and counterproductive.
Based on this, the command therefore wishes to warn any individual, group of students or any group wishing to carry out any form of protest, be it ‘peaceful’ or violent, or of any kind, to give up as a police et al. Security agencies will collectively and tactically resist any security threat or threat to public peace that may be provoked by protests or protesters in the state of Lagos.
“The Police command, emphatically, warns parents and guardians to discourage their children or wards from undertaking any protest in the state, since the possibility of kidnapping by armed thugs to cause pain and pain such as the recent past.
“We encourage the general public to ignore any calls to protest and to take care of their legal affairs, as everyone is on deck to maintain law and order and public safety across the state.”
You will recall that after the Lekki shooting on Tuesday, October 20, 2020, thugs took to the streets of Lagos to loot, vandalize and set fire to many public and private properties.
Media owned by the national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, many police stations and Lagos state government vehicles were some of the properties that were burned to ashes by thugs.
