Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has said the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, did not invite the army to shoot at #EndSARS protesters in Lekki on Tuesday, October
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Speaking in a statement on Wednesday, October 21, he said: “It is absolutely essential to let this government know that the Army has now replaced SARS in the demonic album of the protesters.
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My enquiry so far indicates that the Lagos governor did not invite in the Army, did not complain of a ‘breakdown in law and order’. Nevertheless the Centre has chosen to act in an authoritarian manner and has inflicted a near incurable wound on the community psyche.
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At that earlier mention Lagos sector, Lekki, where most of the affirmative action gatherings had taken place, soldiers opened fire on unarmed demonstrators, killing and wounding a yet undetermined number. One such extra-judicial killing has drenched the Nigerian flag in the blood of innocents – and not symbolically.
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The video has, in accustomed parlance, ‘gone viral’. I have spoken by phone to eye-witnesses. One, a noted public figure has shared his first hand testimony on television. The government should cease to insult this nation with petulant denials.”
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