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EndSARS: Many Victims Already Received Compensation – Lai Mohammed
Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Data and Tradition, has stated that many victims of the EndSARS protest that rocked Nigeria final yr have already acquired cost of sums awarded to them by the panels arrange by the Federal Authorities.
Mohammed said this on Wednesday in an announcement tagged: “Phantom Bloodbath at Lekki tollgate” to mark the one-year anniversary of the protest.
In accordance with him, “Every state, in collaboration with the Federal Authorities, shall set up modalities for the settlement of all financial compensations awarded by the panels.
“Already, as resolved by NEC, quite a lot of states have arrange Victims Compensation Funds, from which a number of victims have already acquired funds of sums awarded to them by the panels.”
Pressinformant studies that the EndSARS protests held in October 2020 have been towards the actions of the now-disbanded Particular Anti-Theft Squad (SARS), a unit of the Nigeria Police Power accused of police brutality.
Youths had gathered on the Lekki tollgate to specific their disgust for police brutality and unhealthy governance in Nigeria.The protesters have been dispersed from the situation by gun-wielding troopers, which some folks believed led to the lack of lives.
This was adopted by the destruction of personal and public properties by hoodlums in Lagos State, an incident that knowledgeable the most recent warning issued by the police within the state.In the meantime, some protesters have been arrested by the police.
