Following the Tuesday October 20 shooting of Endsars protesters at Lekki toll-gate area of Lagos by the uniformed men, protests and unrest continued across multiple areas of Lagos on Wednesday, October 21, despite the 24-hour curfew declared in the city by the governor of the state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
The protesters went on rampage, setting on fire the headquarters of Television Continental, TVC, Lagos Concession Company, LCC, at Lekki, The Nation Newspaper, Lagos BRT Terminus at Oyingbo, corporate head office of Nigerian Pots Authority, NPA, and palace of the Oba of Lagos, HRH Rilwan Akiolu II, among others.
Violence also swept through the South-East and parts of the South-South, as protesters defied the curfew in such states as Imo, Ondo, and Abia, killing and destroying properties.
It also forced Enugu and Ebonyi state governments to impose 24-hour curfew. Although there is no curfew in Rivers, two policemen were killed there.
These developments came, as Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, condemned in very strong terms the killing of defenceless protesters at the Lekki Toll gate in Lagos.
Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu was attempted to calm tensions in the city following the shootings in Lekki on Tuesday night and appealed for calm. However, the governor also announced that the 24-hour curfew had been extended by 72 hours until at least Saturday, October 24.
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