EndSARS Anniversary; Police Tear-Gas Protesters At Lekki Tollgate.

Police in Lagos used tear gas to disperse protesters who came out to mark the first anniversary of #EndSARS.

According to The Cable, police sprayed tear gas at demonstrators at the Lekki tollgate in Lagos on Wednesday.

This comes as Nigerians in Lagos, Abuja, and other states took to the streets on Wednesday to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the #EndSARS protest.

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The #EndSARS demonstration in October 2020 was an anti-police brutality, harassment, extortion, and extrajudicial killings by the special anti-robbery squad.

Hakeem Odumosu, Lagos commissioner of police, informed journalists immediately after that the protestors had assured him they planned to terminate the demonstration by 10 a.m.

Odumosu said any protest beyond the agreed time is constituting a nuisance.

“Between 8am and 10am, anything after 10 am is a nuisance,” Odumosu said.

“I discussed with them and they said they will end the protest by 10 o’clock. Any other person doing it now… the nuisance that have guns, the ones with matchete, hammer, are they protesters or miscreants?

“The protesters are free; they have done their thing and left. Any other person remaining are the miscreants, hoodlums that want to capitalise on that to attack innocent people and start robbing people. We will not allow that.”

The CP also confirmed the arrest of a journalist and said he has ordered his release.