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End SARS Anniversary: “No Street Protests In Lagos” – Lagos State Police Command
PRESS RELEASE
19TH OCTOBER, 2021
ENDSARS ANNIVERSARY: NO STREET PROTESTS IN LAGOS
Consideration of the Lagos State Police Command has been drawn to a submit being circulated on the social media insinuating that the police in Lagos have agreed to permit road protests in commemoration of the one yr EndSARS anniversary on twentieth October, 2021.
Quite the opposite, the police will solely enable an indoor and digital occasion in commemoration of the EndSARS anniversary and can present satisfactory safety on the venue (s) if identified. That is in recognition of rights of each Nigerian to specific his or her curiosity.
We want we may allow such road protests. Nevertheless, intelligence at our disposal has revealed plans by some faceless teams or people to stage an anti-EndSARS anniversary protest within the state similar day.
In view of the conflicting curiosity between the professional and anti- EndSARS anniversary teams and menace to trigger mayhem, the Command as soon as once more warns each teams towards any type of road protest between now and twentieth October, 2021 and past.
It’s acknowledged that residents have the best to peaceable protests. Nevertheless, on this occasion having carried out a important safety evaluation and intelligence report on the disposal of the Lagos Command in respect of the deliberate protests and attendant implications on public security, the Command considers it inappropriate to permit such protests to carry. It won’t stand aloof and permit breakdown of law and order which the protests might trigger.
To keep away from a recurrence of the gory protests of final yr throughout which some harmless Nigerians together with cops have been gruesomely murdered, personal and public property plundered and maliciously destroyed, the police won’t abdicate their obligations of safety of lives and property by permitting such avoidable incident occur once more within the state.
Subsequently, within the curiosity of safety and public security, the Commissioner of Police, CP Hakeem Odumosu, needs to warn the organisers of the protests that the police will deploy all reputable means to cease or neutralise the deliberate protests.
Dad and mom, guardians are admonished to warn their kids towards taking part within the protests. Equally, youths and different people or teams planning to participate within the protests are additional warned in their very own curiosity to shelve the plan.
SIGNED:
CSP ADEKUNLE AJISEBUTU(ANIPR),
POLICE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER
LAGOS STATE COMMAND
