Nigeria has to turn the Lekki Toll Gate into our own Trafalgar Square or Statue of Liberty

Ayo Akinfe

(1) Our national anthem says: “The labours of our heroes past shall never be in vain.” We need to put these words into action and not let the heroes and heroines of the Lekki Toll Gate die in vain

(2) Governor Sanwoolu should turn the toll gate into a symbol of Nigerian democracy and make it a global tourist attraction like London’s Trafalgar Square or New York’s Statue of Liberty

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United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights joins condemnation of Lekki massacre

THE United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has joined the international condemnation of the shooting of defenceless protesters in Nigeria and called on the government to address the matter.

 

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US officials meet with Osinbajo and demand that soldiers behind Lekki shootings be punished

 

AMERICAN government officials have told Nigeria that the soldiers behind the recent shooting of innocent and harmless protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos State must be brought to book.

 

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200m Nigerians must sign this: The Lekki Toll Gate Declaration

The Lekki Toll Gate Declaration

 

Ayo Akinfe

 

[1] We declare that from this date henceforth, we shall not flee in the face of attacks from the Nigerian security forces. Whenever we are holding peaceful demonstrations and the police and/or army are sent to shoot us, we will stay put and be shot. Martyrdom is a necessary price that has to be paid for freedom

 

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Nnamdi Kanu asks Ipob members to arrest Governor Ikpeazu and get him arraigned for killing protesters

 

INDIGENOUS People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu has told his followers to capture Abia State's  Governor Okezie Ikpeazu and get him to face trial for the role he played in the killing of #ENDSARS protesters in the state.

 

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Amnesty International claims military is hiding the corpses of at least 12 of those killed in Lekki

GLOBAL human rights group Amnesty International has accused the Nigerian military of hiding the corpses of at least 12 protesters who were murdered in cold blood at the Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos on Tuesday.

 

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We had our Sharpeville in Lekki

 

We had our Sharpeville in Lekki

 

Ayo Akinfe

 

We had our Sharpeville in Lekki

A Tiananmen Square melee

Young people gunned down in their prime

Wanting good government was their crime

 

They seek to change society

Pressing leaders for probity

Asking that bad governance ends

And for past crimes they make amends

 

Youths want accountability

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UK high commissioner to Nigeria closes all its visa centres in response to Lekki shootings

BRITAIN'S high commissioner to Nigeria has shut down all of the country's visa centres and offices for the next 48 hours in response to the ongoing protests against the massacre of Nigerian youths at the Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos.

 

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Irate Lagosians set Sanwoolu's family house ablaze in response to Nigeria's Sharpeville Massacre

IRATE Lagosians have burnt down the family home of Lagos State's Governor Babajide Sanwoolu on Lagos Island in response to last night's wanton massacre of unarmed youths at the Lekki Toll Gate.

 

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Tinubu denies playing any role in the Lekki Massacre saying he has no stake in tollgate

 

FORMER Lagos State governor and All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has denied any involvement in yesterday's Lekki Toll Gate massacre saying he would never be part of such violence.

 

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