Speaking exclusively with PUNCH HealthWise Adebayo
Francis a few days after he was discharged from the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Igbobi, Lagos, Olalekan Faleye said until the Lekki shooting, he had temporarily worked as a labourer with a construction company in Ikoyi to raise money for his ‘freedom’ as an apprentice cobbler.
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He also planned to use whatever was left after his freedom
ceremony to rent a shop where he could carry out his cobbler
trade.
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“Any time we had little or nothing to do at the construction
site, I would join the #ENDSARS protesters at Lekki Toll Gate
to demonstrate against Police brutality and bad governance.
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“I recalled attending the protest on three different occasions
(October 15, 16 and 17) before the soldiers’ invasion on
October 20,” he said.

Struck by soldiers’ bullet
Looking pale and sad, he struggled to recollect the incident of the Black Tuesday, saying the whole episode still feels like a bad dream.
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“They (soldiers) arrived in a group and, without warning,
started shooting at us. As people ran helter-skelter, I recalled
hearing the protest coordinators screaming, ‘Don’t panic, sit
on the floor together and keep waving the Nigerian flag.,But it
was too late. People panicked when they saw the soldiers
advancing and shooting at us...In the panic that ensued, I was hit on the right leg by a stray bullet. The force of the shot was so intense that I found myself on the ground..."


--.The shooting incident had attracted national and
international outcry, with the Lagos State and Federal
governments being urged to unravel the identity of the
shooters and who deployed them.

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