The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, speaks with DEJI LAMBO on protests within the state, its attendant complications and the use of minimal force to disperse protesters
on protests within the state, its attendant complications and the use of minimal force to disperse protestersprotests and the unrest and destruction that followed, it appears that it has become an offence for citizens to carry out their legitimate rights of protest in Lagos State. Why is this so?
During the last protest held at Gani Fawehinmi Park by Yoruba Nation agitators, a stray bullet from policemen allegedly killed a salesgirl, Jumoke Oyeleke. Shouldn’t the policemen have exercised a peaceful approach to dispersing the protesters to avoid casualties last Monday? So, the lives of our officers were in danger; if we did not respond appropriately, then we would have lost some of our officers. I don’t have details about the one you were talking about last year, the Jumoke Oyeleke’s case.
We approached there and realised that some men were gathered and armed. What any reasonable police force or police department anywhere in the world would do is disperse such a gathering because, to start with, the law does not allow you to disturb public peace. The mere fact of standing in a public place with firearms disturbs public peace, and that was confirmed when people called in to say they saw men with guns and panicked.
Only one person was killed on Monday; the agitators had camera phones and took pictures and videos with them. If you check, all they showed was one body. If they are claiming two persons died, we want to see a picture of that body the same way they showed us one. Also, of all the deaths you mentioned, I have yet to see one that was deliberate.
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