Hardship: Lagos Protesters Vow To Move To Gov’t Secretariat Monday

The #EndBadGovernance protesters at the Ojota Park have declared that venue of the ongoing protest will on Monday shift to the Secretariat of the Lagos State Government at Alausa in Ikeja.

The protesters also said they were being restricted by security operatives from exercising their constitutional rights of protest.

Some of the protesters lamented that the heavy security presence at the Ojota protest ground have witnessed cases of people believed to be sponsored thugs trying to infiltrate the protesters.

There was increased presence of security agents at the protest ground as at 2pm on Saturday, which some protesters attributed to reinforcement by the police at the Ojota Park.

A protester, Sheriff Sholagbade of Amilcar Cabral Ideolocal School said, “The constitution recognises the fact that we have freedom of movement and freedom of peaceful assembly without any definition of where you are to assemble or what we are to do when we assemble.

“We don’t want anybody to gag us into doing what the state government wants or anything. Our interest is to have a peaceful protest. Our interest is not for anything to be destroyed or vandalisation or loss of life.”

He accused the government of sponsoring its agents to work against their peaceful intentions, while alleging that the police were giving the hoodlums subtle support.

“That is what we are trying to avoid and to be on the same page with the rest of the protesters,” he said.

However, the protesters have remained defiant, insisting on protesting till the August 10th last day of the nationwide protest.

Another protester, Azeez Olurin said, “Our politicians are trying to play antics of the whole show. It’s one tribe, one religion and so on and we should try to show understanding. I must enlighten Nigerians that this protest cuts across every facet of life in Nigeria.

“Even Nigerians abroad want to come home but because of the feedback they get from home, they can’t because of the situation and the feedback at home encouraged Japa.”