The #EndBadGovernance Movement has announced plans to occupy the Lekki Toll Gate on Sunday, October 20, 2024, to hold a solemn memorial procession, rally, prayers and lay wreath at the scene where #EndSARS protesters were killed four years ago, on October 20, 2020.
The movement which made this known in a statement signed and issued on Friday by its leaders, Hassan Taiwo Soweto; Osugba Blessing and Oloye Adegboyega-Adeniji, called on Nigerians, especially the youths to come out en masse on Sunday to honour the martyrs of 2020 #EndSARS protest.
The movement recalled that “Sunday 20 October 2024 makes it four years since scores of protesters were massacred by the Nigerian army and the police at the Lekki toll gate during the #EndSARS protest which erupted nationwide in the month of October 2020.”
The statement reads partly,”To honor these martyrs of our collective struggle for liberty, the #Endbadgovernance movement Lagos State has decided to join other groups, victims of SARS and police brutality and their families as well as Nigerians of goodwill at the Lekki toll gate on Sunday 20 October 2024 for a memorial procession and rally, prayers and laying of wreath at the scene of the massacre four years ago.
“As we march out peacefully once again on Sunday 20, October 2024 to honour the martyrs of #EndSARS, we shall continue to demand and fight for justice for all those killed and maimed in the struggle as well as freedom for all #Endbadgovernance protesters in captivity or undergoing trial nationwide.
“We hereby call on all Nigerian people and youth to troop out en masse on 20 October 2024 to honour the martyrs of #EndSARS.”
Follow Parallel Facts on WhatsApp Channel:https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaCQSAoHgZWiDjR3Kn2E
