Thread by @eemmanuels4

Pro-government armed groups High-jacked and deliberately instigated violence during #EndSARS demonstrations to serve as a pretext for the police use of lethal force on peaceful protesters.

It’s been 3 years and over 40 protesters are still languishing in prisons.

The Nigerian army and police killed at least, 12 people at Lekki toll Gate shooting and massacre.

Rather than bringing those responsible for the attacks on protesters to justice, the authorities have engaged in a series of bizarre denials and cover-ups.

If this is not the Government sabotaging its own, then I wonder what sabotage actually is.

Seem most people are beginning to forget or has forgotten, BUUT!!

Oyewole Olumide, Rasheed Tiamiyu, Moruf Adekunle, Taoreed Abiodun, Ikenna Amechi, Afeez Ariyo, Ikechukwu Eze, and

Adesina Ademuyiwa were among those arrested in Ibadan for participating in #EndSARS protests in October 2020. Despite reportedly suffering from ill health, they continue to be held without trial in Agodi Correctional Centre, having previously been detained at a SARS facility in

Ibadan and Abolongo Prison in Oyo Town. 

It will shock you to know that,

Ayodeji Oluwasegun, Andoh Immanuel, Yakubu Olayiwola, Olaogun Ismail, Uba Chukwuma, Dosunmu Taiwo, Daniel Joy-Igbo, Yusuf Rafiu, Olawale Marcus, Muyiwa Onikoyi, Shehu Anas, Suleman Saidu, Rasheed Wasiu

Bolaji, Adigun Sodiq, Sunday Okoro, Akiniran Oyetakin, Ogidi Isah, Ibrahim Adesanya, and Faruk Abdulquadri have also been detained without trial in Kirikiri Medium Security Prison in Lagos since 2020. 

It’s been 3years, what was their Crime?

“Protest against police Brutality”

Just as expected, the authorities have justifies the ongoing detention of these protesters, resorting to trumped-up charges including theft, arson, possession of unlawful firearms, and murder. 

A further twenty-one EndSARS protesters were held incommunicado for 15 months at

Afaraukwu Correctional Service in Umuahia in Abia state for participating in the protests. On Friday 4 February 2022, they were released without charge following an intervention by Amnesty International. 

One of the protesters told Amnesty International: “In Umuahia, at the

Criminal Investigation Department (CID), they called us into their torture room one after another. When I entered, they tied my hands to the iron bars on the window so I couldn’t fight them, and then they started flogging my ankle with a rod, and also my knee…”

A 21-year-old student of Abia State Polytechnic, who was among more than 20 protesters arrested on 20 October 2020 in Waterside in Ogbor Hill, Abia state, told Amnesty International: 

“When I arrived at the criminal investigation department, they started asking us why we were

protesting against the police. Some of us said we were fighting for our rights. Then the police said they would kill us for going out to protest. They removed our clothes… and started flogging us. I still have some of the injuries I sustained, I still get pains from them.

They were flogging us everywhere. I was bending my head to protect my eyes. We suffered there.”

They removed my shirt and blindfolded my eyes with it,” the student added. “When we got to Eziama Police Station, they asked my age. I told them I was 16, but I was 15 then.

They slapped me twice and beat me with sticks for joining the protest. Then they said they would put me in a separate cell. They kept us in the cell and brought us out the next day to beat us again.” 
Many of those interviewed said they had suffered from health issues as a result

of the torture they faced and the inhuman conditions they were kept in detention. All released detainees interviewed by Amnesty International said the authorities had not returned their phones, cash, and other valuables which were taken from them after the protests.

For Our Comrades we lost on

20 - 10 - 2020 at the Gruesome Lekki Massacre, Rest In Peace Heroes.

It has become part of our history now. We will Never forget 🕯🕯🕯