Lekki massacre

On the night of 20 October 2020, at about 6:50 pm WAT, members of the Nigerian Armed Forces opened fire at peaceful demonstrations part of the End SARS protesters at the Lekki toll gate in Lagos, Nigeria. The governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwoolu initially denied any loss of life by gunfire, but later admitted that at least one person was killed. It's the latest of the Nigerian army's display of ruthlessness and disdain for civilians' lives. The army has been known to open fire and kill harmless civilians in Zaki Biam[5], Odi[6], and in 2015 Zaria massacre in Kaduna. The Lekki massacre mirrored the events of the Shiites killing, where the army opened fire on a harmless group of people and collect bodies after to erase the evidence[7].
End SARS
Protesters hold up their placards in front of the Lagos State House
The End SARS is a decentralised social movement against police brutality in Nigeria. The slogan calls for an end to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), a controversial unit of the Nigerian Police Force with a long record of human-rights abuses.[8][9] The protests started in 2017 as a Twitter campaign using the hashtag #ENDSARS to demand the Nigerian government disband and reform the police unit.[10][11][12] After experiencing a revitalization in October 2020, mass demonstrations were occurring throughout Nigeria in major cities, and the hashtag had 28 million tweets.[13] Nigerians shared stories and video evidence of how members of SARS engaged in kidnapping, murder, theft, rape, torture, unlawful arrests, humiliation, unlawful detention, extrajudicial killings, and extortion in Nigeria.[14] SARS officers have been alleged to profile youths based on fashion choices, mount illegal road blocks and searches, conduct unwarranted temperature checks, arrest without warrant, rape women, and extort young Nigerians for driving nice cars and using iPhones.[15]

The Nigerian president had announced scrapping the police unit (SARS), directed state Governors to constitute a Judicial Panel of Inquiry to decide on cases of killings and brutality by officers of the defunct SARS so punishment can be meted on rogue officers. However, the protesters refused all entreaties to suspend the protests and nominate youth Representatives into the Judicial Panel and called the government's bluff.

Within a few days of renewed protests, some claimed victory as the Nigerian Police Force announced it was dissolving SARS on Sunday, 11 October 2020.[16] However, many noted similar promises had been made in recent years, and that the government planned to reassign and review SARS officers to medical centres rather than remove them entirely.[17] Protests have continued accordingly, and the Nigerian state has maintained a pattern of violent repression, including the killing of demonstrators.[18] There have been international demonstrations in solidarity with those happening in the country, and the scope of the movement has also grown increasingly critical of the Muhammadu Buhari-fronted Nigerian state and society as a whole.[1


Protest camp at Lekki Toll Gate
Protesters had been camping at the Lekki Toll Gate for two weeks prior to the shooting.[3] The protesters prevented vehicular traffic on the major thoroughfare during these two weeks of demonstrations.[1]

Attack
On the night of 20 October 2020, Nigerian Armed Forces shot at unarmed protesters at the Lekki toll gate in Lagos, Nigeria.[20]

According to Amnesty International, shortly before the shooting, CCTV cameras were allegedly removed from the toll gate. In addition, Nigerian authorities cut the electricity to the toll gate so that it would be dark and filmed evidence of the shooting would not emerge, the advertisement billboards at the toll gate which are owned and maintained by Loatsad Media were also turned off.[3] Loatsad Media stated, "On Tuesday [20 October] when the curfew was announced we heeded the governors warnings and didn't want our staff in any danger, hence by 3pm our staff had been ordered to leave the site and the board was switched off based on the governors curfew request."[21] It was also reported that network providers switched off the network antennas in that area as protesters who used MTN and Airtel as their network providers reported that they were unable to make phone calls or use the internet at that time, MTN Nigeria released a statement later that night apologising for the loss of network coverage in that area as at the time of the shooting.[3]

According to one witness, after the lights were switched off at the toll gate, soldiers arrived and allegedly began shooting directly at the crowd. Another witness stated that the shooting continued for fifteen to thirty minutes and that after the shooting he observed multiple bodies on the ground.[22][23] The soldiers were said to have walked in a formation towards the protesters with trucks flashing light before they opened fire.[24]

Following a message spread on social media that protesters would be safe if they sang the national anthem and waved the Nigerian flag, Protesters sat down with locked arms singing the Nigerian anthem and waving the Nigerian flag as 20 armed military personnel approached. Video of the event shows them raising their voices in song as they are shot.[1]

A popular Nigerian DJ, DJ Switch, live-streamed the event on Instagram during, and the aftermath of the shooting. In the video, they attempted to remove a bullet from the leg of a man who was shot, tying a Nigerian flag around his leg.[25][26]

At least 46 people were killed around Nigeria on Tuesday, October 20 according to data gathered by Lagos-based risk advisory, SBM Intelligence[27]. In the hours after the shooting, People's Gazette, a local newspaper, reported that the army had tried to give nine bodies to the police to help them bury. The police rejected[28] the bodies. On October 23, DJ Switch made a video on Instagram[29] where she explained what happened and said that she counted up to 15 bodies.



In an independent analysis of the attack, Wall Street Journal investigated various clips from social media and concluded that indeed the massacre took place in Lekki[30]


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lekki_massacre

Ok

No doubt needless army shooting happened according some video clips in circulation but certainly NOT a massacre or a genocide if we go by the either literal or technical defnition of those words.

festacman:
No doubt shooting happened but certainly not a massacre or a genocide.

What is massacre?
In an independent analysis of the attack, Wall Street Journal investigated various clips from social media and concluded that indeed the massacre took place in Lekki[

capitalzero:

What is massacre?
In an independent analysis of the attack, Wall Street Journal investigated various clips from social media and concluded that indeed the massacre took place in Lekki[

Wall Street Journal investigated clips from social media including scenes from stage plays and concluded it is a massacre but none of the events that happened in US or what US forces did in Iraq is massacre. SMH

God bless wikipedia.

festacman:
No doubt needless army shooting happened according some video clips in circulation but certainly NOT a massacre or a genocide if we go by the either literal or technical defnition of those words.

How many people will be killed before it becomes a massacre?

PaChukwudi44:

How many people will be killed before it becomes a massacre?

I wonder oh.

I love what they wrote on how naija army use omo to clean the blood

PaChukwudi44:

How many people will be killed before it becomes a massacre?

Ehya, sorry. Wall street doesn't need your opinion. Because they know you have been bought. Pick up a struggle. It will be good for you

Massacare no dead body litttered on scence

Massacre no single pictures of dead body apart from all the fake pictures which people claimed dead came back alive next day.

Even if you kill 1 chicken you will see blood stains but over 15 people died no blood
I guess they all suffered internal bleeding after they were killed or Amry came will detergent and mopping sticks to wipe the floor after carrying away the corpse.

At least there should be blood dripping from the van where over 15 corpse was carried

Even a nigerian nolywood producer will not direct this poor script

OkoNDOoBo:
Massacare no dead body litttered on scence

Massacre no single pictures of dead body apart from all the fake pictures which people claimed dead came back alive next day.

Even if you kill 1 chicken you will see blood stains but over 15 people died no blood
I guess they all suffered internal bleeding after they were killed or Amry came will detergent and mopping sticks to wipe the floor after carrying away the corpse.

At least there should be blood dripping from the van where over 15 corpse was carried

Even a nigerian nolywood producer will not direct this poor script

When ICC will get Buhari arrested after his tenure , your eyes go clear !

OkoNDOoBo:
Massacare no dead body litttered on scence

Massacre no single pictures of dead body apart from all the fake pictures which people claimed dead came back alive next day.

Even if you kill 1 chicken you will see blood stains but over 15 people died no blood
I guess they all suffered internal bleeding after they were killed or Amry came will detergent and mopping sticks to wipe the floor after carrying away the corpse.

At least there should be blood dripping from the van where over 15 corpse was carried

Even a nigerian nolywood producer will not direct this poor script

when ICC get Buhari arrested after his tenure, una eyes go clear !

Marine54:
when ICC get Buhari arrested after his tenure, una eyes go clear !

I hope you realize the President of the ICC graduated from the University of Calabar.

Marine54:
When ICC will get Buhari arrested after his tenure , your eyes go clear !

so ICC will use the fake news that you idiots have been trending as evidence to nail him.
You re dumb than i thought. Even BBC aljazeera have backtrack after discovering 99% of the informations about End sars protest and massacre is false

OkoNDOoBo:
so ICC will use the fake news that you idiots have been trending as evidence to nail him.
You re dumb than i thought. Even BBC aljazeera have backtrack after discovering 99% of the informations about End sars protest and massacre is false

It'll shock you when the time come !

: when ICC get Buhari arrested after his tenure, una eyes go clear !I hope you realize the President of the ICC graduated from the University of Calabar.

OkoNDOoBo:
Massacare no dead body litttered on scence

Massacre no single pictures of dead body apart from all the fake pictures which people claimed dead came back alive next day.

Even if you kill 1 chicken you will see blood stains but over 15 people died no blood
I guess they all suffered internal bleeding after they were killed or Amry came will detergent and mopping sticks to wipe the floor after carrying away the corpse.

At least there should be blood dripping from the van where over 15 corpse was carried

Even a nigerian nolywood producer will not direct this poor script

Were you there to check if there’s blood on the ground or not.give yourself small sense and shut up. I don’t even know how much they paid you guys.you can never bury the truth no matter how hard you try.mad people every where

Wikipedia that anyone can write and edit?

I think say una get better talk...