Human rights activist, Aisha Yesufu, has said that the Nigerian government behaved like a terrorist by killing its own citizens during the 2020 #EndSars Protest.
Naijaonpoint recalls that some Nigerians lost their lives during the #EndSars protest at the Lekki toll gate when military personnel opened fire at the protesters.
As Nigerians mark the 5th year remembrance of the victims of the protest, Yesufu, during an interview on Arise Television’s ‘Prime Time’ programme on Monday, described the incident as a painful and heartbreaking memory.
She said, “When a shooting was going on, a young man across me flinched as soon as those guns started going away and it’s just something that evokes such a very heartbreaking memory and that Nigeria could do such to its young ones.
“The protest didn’t die down, rather it was killed off. Guns were brought in. We saw military officers who ordinarily should be protecting Nigerians and the territorial integrity of Nigeria decided to turn their guns on citizens; Nigerian youths who were merely reciting the national anthem and also waving the Nigerian flag.
“It’s such a painful memory and like I was saying that when a police officer or any security agency said they would kill and nothing would happen, indeed on 20-10-2020, without any doubt we came to see that yes indeed, they can kill Nigerians and nothing would happen.
“It’s really so sad that the Nigerian government, like I have always said, decided to behave like a terrorist government by killing its own citizens on 20-10-2020.
“Young people owned the protest and were very organised, and the police still came out to shoot them.”
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