Lekki Toll Gate: Shooting of #ENSARS protesters a tragic calamity – S’East, S’South professionals
The South-East, South-South Professionals of Nigeria has condemned in very strong terms the killings and brutalization of unarmed peaceful protesters in Lagos and across the country by the Nigerian military and Police operatives.
The group said the action of the military ought to precipitate an immediate nation-wide atonement by the Nigerian Government.
In a statement on Wednesday by its President and Publicity Secretary, Hannibal Uwaifo and Collins Steve Ugwu respectively, the group said the “heinous wickedness of blood spilling, as a discredited pattern of crowd control, is a dumped global misnomer, and goes to show rather shamefully, that reason, empathy and commonsense continue to be scarce at the precincts of our governments and power corridors.
“We therefore urgently call for a quick rethink and immediate halt to this bizarre mindset, that propels the lust of our security agencies to feed their people to the monster of life snuffing bullets.
“We assert forcefully and agree completely that the genuine demands of our youths for an end to Police brutality, extortion and killings, resonates with all patriotic Nigerians, as a deep national revival for justice, fairness and good governance, and must never be truncated through a reckless bluster of insensitivity.”
The group noted that it is not a shame for this government to have patience, nor is it a weakness for it to grow endurance; “two virtues it has enjoyed from her citizens liberally, but arrogantly failed to internalize.”
It continued: “As a professional body and critical stakeholder for a well governed Nigeria, we hereby call on Nigerians to stay the course of civility and protect each other in the moral resolve to take back our country.’
It called on the international community to rise to the duty of humanity by putting pressure on President Muhammadu Buhari as the Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces to be accountable to his oath of office and forestall further deliberate atrocities.
