In compliance with the security directive, organisers of the planned protest scheduled to take place at Lekki-Epe Toll Gate failed to show up as armed policemen are currently patrolling the axis to ensure the safety of lives and property of the citizenry.
However, at about 11 am, some suspects were picked up by the police for loitering without cogent reasons.
About five suspects were arrested and taken into the waiting Black Maria vehicle stationed at the toll gate.
A guy who drove in his non-public car with a placard bearing inscription, ” One Nigeria,” was at once intercepted by means of the police and after short interrogation become whisked into the Black Maria vehicle before taken away to an unknown area. His motion camera was additionally seized within the method.
Meantime, the state Commissioner for Police, Hakeem Odumosu, responding to the development, assured citizens of adequate security of lives and property.
Odumosu, even as acknowledging the rights of the human beings to protest as enshrined within the Nigeria Constitution, but must now not debar others from going approximately their ordinary groups.
Recall that opposing corporations, #EndSARS agitators, underneath the guise of #OccupyLekkiTollGate and some other organization, #DefendLagos, to hold simultaneously, protest at the toll gate.
In a swift proactive step, Lagos State Government warned the two rival corporations to shelve the plan and stay away, as every association has been concluded to prosecute violators.
Also, the nation Police Command threatened to deal decisively with any form of protest inside the nation as the command is prepared to arrest and prosecute any violator(s).
The deliberate protest turned into in response to the Lagos State Judicial Panel’s decision permitting the Lekki Concession Company (LCC) to repossess the Lekki Toll Gate which brought about a social media hurricane on Tuesday with two companies threatening counter-protests at the plaza.
Opponents of the panel’s choice, mainly youths, expressed their outrage on Twitter with the hashtag #OccupyLekkiTollGate.
They resolved to degree some other protest at the tollgate on Saturday, February 13, 2021, from 7 am to ensure that the tollgate stays close until justice is served to the sufferers of the Lekki shooting.
Their outrage became matched through proponents of a counter social media campaign with the #DefendLagos and #DemNoBornDemPapaWell.
The promoters lamented that Lagos State witnessed huge destruction of public and private homes throughout the #EndSARS protests, caution that further protest in order to cause destruction will no longer be tolerated.
Last November Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu anticipated about N1 trillion for the reconstruction and restore of the properties and infrastructure that had been vandalised and destroyed by way of hoodlums at some point of the length of protests which was later hijacked through hoodlums.
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