Organisers of the #EndBadGovernance campaign in Nigeria have demanded that the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, be fired immediately for killing demonstrators during the statewide protests.
Comrade Hassan Taiwo, national spokesperson of the Youth Rights Campaign and leader of #EndBadGovernance in Lagos, made the demand during a candlelight symposium in honour of the victims on Friday at the Rights House in Ikeja, Lagos.
According to Hassan, “We are demanding the immediate sack of the Inspector General of Police over his role in the killing of innocent and unarmed protesters.”
The symposium comes on the heels of a three-day mourning declared by the group at the Gani Fawehinmi Freedom Park in Ojota, Lagos, in honour of those killed during the ongoing #EndBadGovernance protests.
The hunger protest, which was earlier slated to last for 10 days, entered its ninth on Friday, remaining just a day to go.
Amnesty International has accused the Nigerian security forces of killing at least 21 protesters during a week of demonstrations against economic hardships, hunger, and corruption, among others.
The Committee for Defence of Human Rights, CDHR, subsequently led a candlelight procession to the Lagos State Governor Bababjide Sanwo-Olu’s Office, Alausa, Ikeja, where they later dispersed.
