FLASHBACK: From Delta to Lagos, How #EndSARS Protest Began | Foundation for investigative Journalism

Although Lagos quickly became the epicentre of the October 2020 #EndSARS protest, it started in Ughelli town, Delta State, when angry young people pursued police officers fleeing in a white SUV belonging to a man they allegedly shot and left to die by the road. “We dey follow them o!” One of the men chasing the officers screamed. The SUV ran left and right, outpacing other vehicles on the highway.

It was October 3, 17 days before Nigerian troops opened fire on hundreds of peaceful #EndSARS demonstrators at the Lekki Tollgate in Lagos. Exactly one year earlier, men of the Police Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) had stopped Idonreyin Obong, an Android engineer at Paystack, while returning from work around 11 pm. Seeing a Macbook and an iPhone in his car, they called him an internet fraudster and ordered him on their bus. If he did not pay N800,000, the officers alerted Obong, they would shoot him.

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