Female #EndSARS Memorial Protester Assaulted By Police Officer Reportedly Bleeding Profusely
The National Secretary of a human rights organisation, Youth Rights Campaign (YRC), Francis Nwapa, who made this known in a post on his X handle on Monday, said the female protester recently had a minor surgery.
A female protester who participated in the #EndSARS memorial protest in Lagos State on Sunday and was reportedly brutally assaulted by a female police officer is said to be bleeding profusely.
The National Secretary of a human rights organisation, Youth Rights Campaign (YRC), Francis Nwapa, who made this known in a post on his X handle on Monday, said the female protester recently had a minor surgery.
According to Nwapa, the protester was assaulted by a female police officer.
He identified the police officer as one of those deployed by the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Olarenwaju Ishola, to stop the protesters from holding the #EndSARS memorial on Sunday.
Nwapa said, “Since the current regime of @officialABAT, Kayode Egbedukun IG @PoliceNG have been a tool to unleash violence on protesters.”
He alleged that the female police officer dipped her hand in the private parts of the female protester while trying to get her phone.
“She’s still bleeding profusely & in pain. Another female was shot with tear gas cannisters. This madness must not continue to happen in our beloved country,” Nwapa said.
According to him, “The police officers that brutalised protesters yesterday must be fished out & prosecuted. Kayode Egbedukun and Olarenwaju Ishola CP of Police Lagos should be held responsible for the actions of their men.”
He called for justice for the #EndSARS memorial protesters.
SaharaReporters reported on Sunday that the Nigeria Police Force in its unrelenting brutal clampdown on Nigerian peaceful protesters arrested the National Spokesman of Youth Rights Campaign (YRC), Hassan Taiwo Soweto and 21 other members of #EndBadGovernance Movement in Lagos at Lekki Tollgate.
Soweto and the other protesters were arrested on Sunday during a protest to honour the memory of those who were massacred during the #EndSARS protests against police brutality in October 2020.
The protesters were taken to the Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department at Panti in Lagos.
Since the current regime of @officialABAT, Kayode Egbedukun IG @PoliceNG have been a tool to unleash violence on protesters. Just yesterday a female police officer dipped her hand in the private part of a female Protester who recently had a minor surgery while trying to get her pic.twitter.com/wosbsmXedQ
— Francis Nwapa (@FNwapa) October 21, 2024
