EYEWITNESSES and others who witnessed the incident on video which went viral on the social media, watched in shock as black Toyota Prado sports utility vehicles pulled up at the scene, and slowed down long enough to pick up a pack of thugs‎, who were armed with assorted dangerous weapons.

Men, clad in dark suits, who appeared to be government officials, could be seen opening the doors of the SUVs for the thugs, who rushed inside as the vehicles sped off.

A hysterical voice, which ran a commentary, narrating what was going on in the viral video, expressed shock at the development.

The Toyota Prado SUVs – the Federal Government’s choice vehicle – were transporting thugs to protest venues to attack unarmed citizens who are protesting against police brutality.

Apparently, from what could be seen in the videos, the government was providing logistics support for the hoodlums, who have been attacking protesters in various parts of the country, all in a bid to shut down the #EndSARS protests.

Cases of thugs launching unprovoked attacks on the protesters escalated after the protests continued even after the Federal Government disbandeed of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigeria Police Force and speedily replaced the outfit with the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team.

The hoodlums had initially commenced their operations by staging parallel protests in support of SARS, but gradually they turned on the #EndSARS protesters with violence.

Protesters were attacked and harassed in calculated moves that were obviously aimed at intimidating them into giving up the campaign. ‎
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To further discredit the #EndSARS movement, the thugs destroyed vehicles and other property belonging to members of the public who were not even participating in the protests.

This was the case at the Julius Berger roundabout in the Wuse area o‎f Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, on October 14.

The apparent intention was to create the impression that the protesters have become violent, and thereby provide the security agencies a reason to clampdown on them.

Eventually, it appeared that the mandate of the hoodlums became deadlier, culminating in murderous attacks on protesters across the country on Tuesday, October 20.

However, not all victims of the attacks were protesters – in some cases, passers-by were caught up in the state-sponsored violence that was unleashed on the #EndSARS movement.

‎October 20, a day which became known as ‘Black Tuesday’ in the social media, was to go down in history as another of those infamous dates on which dictatorial regimes suppressed popular dissent with brutal force when soldiers rained live bullets on unarmed protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos.

The daily barricade of the Lekki Toll Gate by mostly youthful protesters was a major highlight of the #EndSARS protests and dislodging the crowd at the Gate was key in the agenda to forcefully suppress the movement, which the army and some backers of the Federal Government were beginning to liken to a push for ‘regime change’.

Many protesters were killed in the ‘Lekki Kill‎ings’ and many more were critically wounded.

By the end of the day, pictures of a blood-stained national flag, which went viral across social media platforms, has become the symbol of ‘Black Tuesday’.

READ MORE: https://www.icirnigeria.org/black-tuesday-lekki-killings-mirror-tianamen-squares-brutal-suppression-of-dissent/

Whoever wrote this report is an enemy of state. God is watching.

Tianamen square is a real event that has real victims who have real families and it wasn't a secret. Lekki killings is a hoax, no evidence of massacre so far and all its proponents are relying on the false narration of a propagandist witch. The only similarity is that some minority group think they can take over the government by occupying public space and paralysing the government.