My Son Shot By Nigerian Policemen During EndSARS Protest Can’t Walk Again, Uses Diapers — Lagos-Based Widow Laments | Sahara Reporters
My Son Shot By Nigerian Policemen During #EndSARS Protest Can’t Walk Again, Uses Diapers — Lagos-Based Widow LamentsIn October 2020, young persons across Nigeria trooped to the streets to demand an end to police brutality and to also demand “good governance”.
The protesters were dispersed by hoodlums suspected to be sponsored by the Nigerian government and ruling All Progressives Congress after two weeks. “In the morning of the following day, after Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos declared a curfew, he told me that he was done with the job and he was on his way home. Just some seconds after we spoke on phone, I heard gunshots around Ojuelegba bridge. I started to try to call him, to tell him to watch his steps.
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