Anxiety In Lagos Over Planned Resumption of #EndSARS Protest

By Dayo Badmus

There is serious anxiety in Lagos over the planned resumption of #EndSARS protest today by Youths amidst threat by the Police to resist any gathering.

The #EndSARS movement is said to be mobilizing to stage a fresh Protest across the state citing “harassment” of the promoters.

The state Panel of Inquiry investigating alleged brutality and abuses by the disbanded State Anti-Robbery Squad as well as the recent Lekki shootings had suspended sitting on Saturday when two Youth representatives pulled out in protest against the freezing of accounts of the #EndSARS promoters by the Central Bank of Nigeria.

The Youths, it was learnt, are already mobilizing ahead of today’s protest three weeks after the state recovered from massive arsons and destruction of Public assets in the previous protests.

But the state Police command has vowed to resist any fresh protest.

the state Police command had deployed its men in strategic places in Lagos to foil any protest, at Alausa in Ikeja, parts of Awolowo Road, Ikeja Under-Bridge, Ikeja Along, among others.

The Police command said it would resist any planned protest, procession or gathering under whatever guise in the metropolis, insisting that the government and residents were yet to overcome “the wounds sustained during the recent #EndSARS protests.”