The Minister of Information and culture has vowed that the Federal Government would not sit by and watch violence in the name of #EndSars Season 2.
Recall that some Nigerians believed to be proponents of the #EndSARS protests are planning to embark on a protest against the recent banning of the cryptocurrency by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.
The organisers of the protest fixed Saturday, February 13 for the commencement of the mass action tagged: ‘EndSARS Season 2 or #OccupyLekkiTollGate.
But the minister said that security agents would be deployed to forestall any eventuality, warning the organisers to desist from holding the mass action.
According to him, the government will not allow a repeat of what happened during the #EndSARS protest last year in which six soldiers and 37 policemen were murdered in cold blood by hoodlums.
He said: “Any further resort to violence in the name of EndSars will not be tolerated this time. The security agents are ready for any eventuality.
“A situation in which six soldiers and 37 policemen were murdered in cold blood by hoodlums will not repeat itself.
“The attack, looting and razing of 269 private and public property will not happen again. The killing of 57 civilians will not be re-enacted.
“We therefore strongly warn those who are planning to re-occupy Lekki Toll Gate on Saturday to desist.
“We know that many of those who have been loudest on social media in advertising the plan to reconvene in Lagos on Saturday are not even in Nigeria.
“They are elsewhere around the world fanning the embers of violence and inciting gullible people back home. No one should fall for their antics.
“No government anywhere will allow a repeat of the kind of destruction, killing and maiming wrought by the hijackers of EndSars protests last year.
“After all, only one policeman – (plus four others) – was killed in the invasion of the US Capitol in January, yet the FBI has continued to hunt down and prosecute the perpetrators. No life is more important than the other.”
