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The initiator of #DefendLagos, Alabi Oladimeji, says the group has suspended its counter-protest scheduled to hold at the #Lekkitollgate today (Saturday).
He revealed this at a press conference hosted on his Facebook page, stating that the suspension was necessitated by the assurances of the federal and state governments that no protest would be allowed to hold.
Recall that two opposing groups – #OccupyLekkiTollGate and #DefendLagos – planned to hold separate protests in Lagos State on Saturday.
However, Oladimeji cautioned that #DefendLagos would organise a “huge” protest if the security operatives enabled the #OccupyLekkiTollgate campaigners to hold their planned protest.
He said, “No protest from #DefendLagos on Saturday (today). We are simultaneously respecting the state and federal governments.
“I am proud to announce that for the main time, we will be pending this protest due to the law of the Federal and state governments. We are law-abiding and good citizens, definitely, we should not be the ones seen disobeying any law.
“In respect of the President, Muhammadu Buhari, and Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. I am now announcing that anyone involved in #DefendLagos initiated by me should with immediate effect pend the protest. We are not going to hold any protest again on Saturday (today).
“If Lagos and FG fail us, we will come out huge and protest on Monday.”
Oladimeji explained that the plan to protest was never for personal benefits but to ensure that no destruction occurred in Lagos State, although according to him it is depressing.
“It is depressing news for me because we have invested personal resources to produce banners, posters among others on this. But this is not an avenue for us to make money like those in the OccupyLagos,” he added.
The #DefendLagos campaigner also called on the governments to arrest anyone that go against the directives stopping protests in the state.
“If they come out to protest and the government allows that, it means that we can also protest. We trust the governments. The state and FG have banned any protests in Lagos. If they come out and the government did not arrest them, it means that the government has failed us,” he said.
The Federal Government and the police had earlier cautioned youths who planned to protest at the Lekki tollgate on Saturday (today) to have a rethink and shelve the protests.
But the young Nigerians, under the aegis of #EndSARS Season 2 and #OccupyLekkiTollgate, vowed to defy the government’s order.
They said their action was fuelled by the decision of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry allowing the Lekki Concession Company to reopen the Lekki tollgate.
The #EndSARS protests had rocked the country in October 2020 to register the youths’ displeasure against the alleged atrocities of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Nigeria Police Force.
The #EndSARS protests gained wide international attention, but it came to an end on October 20, 2020, when heavily armed soldiers allegedly shot protesters at the Lekki tollgate.
After about four months into investigating the Lekki shootings, the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry decided to allow the LCC to resume operation at the tollgate – a development that has generated a flurry of reactions among youths.
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