#EndSars: Why They Are Saying There Are Coordinated Attacks On Agencies Of Lagos Govt & Businesses Linked To Tinubu And Friends

Eniola Adeniyi

There is a terrifying scenario playing out in Lagos State.

Under the guise of anger over the shooting of #EndSars protesters yesterday, October 20, 2020, at the Lekki Toll Gate, Lagos state – a systematic attack on the agencies of the Lagos State Government and businesses linked to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and his associates are being carried out.

Societynow.ng gathered that the multiple attacks are being carried out simultaneously.

The television station, TVC widely believed to be owned by Tinubu was torched in a manner that appeared ‘’premeditated”.

According to eye witness “The boys came in two busses about 30-minutes ago, several cars have been burnt to ashes in their compound.”

Vehicles owned by LAGBUS, the company Tinubu is believed to have business interests are being ‘’wantonly targeted for destruction”.

Attempts are said to have been made on some of the personal properties of Tinubu including his famous home on bourdillon, Lagos State.

The Palace of the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akinolu an ardent supporter of Tinubu has been attacked and set on fire.

The family house of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the godson of Tinubu on Lagos Island was almost set ablaze but for the intervention of the men of the Nigerian Police station at Adeniji Adele after it was vandalized but his mother’s home in Surulere was not so lucky.

The office of the traffic offenses apprehension agency, VIO has also been set ablaze.

Societynow.ng gathered that those who tried to stop the attacks or show empathy are being massively threatened.

Channels Television’s reporter Ayo Makinde was attacked during “a live report’’ on the situation at TVC.

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Channels Television was forced to go off air over threats of ‘’imminent attack” on its staff and operation barely Makinde’s report.

Local Government councils with ardent loyalists of Tinubu at the helms of affairs are also being targeted.

‘’So, it’s a systematic attack targeted at certain people and their business interests, these are not spontaneous attacks. I have a strong feeling of political leaning to this” a source offered.

Multiple sources agree that the attacks are needless, especially on businesses such as TVC and LAGBUS.

‘’Those are the means of livelihood of everyday people! they just took away the livelihood of some drivers, their assistants, and other earning money from that particular value chain” a source exclaimed.

‘’Even the government properties they are destroying where will the money to repair or replace them come from? from the people’s collective wealth of course..so all these attacks are needless” societynow.ng learned.

“I believe the attack on TVC is particularly senseless. That is one TV station that has championed the cause of the #EndSars protesters, even in the face of the narrative that other interests have hijacked the movement. TVC stood firm, especially the Journalist Hangout crew. Sadly, even when the attack was carried out on the station today, TVC was passionately condemning the shooting of protesters at Lekki Toll gate through the program Your View, I know because I was monitoring the station” Charles Oyelesi, societynow.ng’s reporter stated.

The general theme of reactions to the ongoing destruction of private and government properties in Lagos State is that in the face of the economic strain imposed by the income draining Covid-19 experience and the struggle to revamp the economy – the attacks defy