Lekki Shooting: Is Sanwo-Olu looking for a scapegoat?
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos state. By Barrister John Atani The aftermath of the #EndSARS protests across the country is an ugly phenomenon no one would want to recall. The #EndSARS protest started like a revolution staged digitally by its promoters before it spreads like wildfire to the streets touching the nooks and corners of the nation. As it was for previous protests and major phenomenal events in Nigeria, Lagos is always the epic centre. The protests in Lagos dragged on for about two weeks nonstop with the protesters shutting down many parts of the state and crippling business activities in the nation’s commercial capital. The promoters of the #EndSARS protest demanded for the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigeria Police (which is now defunct anyway), a unit notorious for committing wanton human rights abuses, extra judicial killings, among other allegations. We saw the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu making frantic appeals ...