Details: #EndSars Protesters Forcing Passengers – Including Women – Down From Vehicles & Commercial Motorcycles To Join Protest

Eniola Adeniyi

It appears the #EndSars protests have started taking the dimension of forcing people to get involved.

A witness to one of such episodes earlier today, Saturday October 17, 2020, Wale Adedayo narrated “Son of man had to angrily confront some of these protesters about 30 minutes ago adjacent the PUNCH newspapers complex along the Lagos – Ibadan Expressway. They were forcing passengers down from their vehicles, a move I resisted.

Unable to answer my question, “what is the difference between you guys and SARS,” one of them now insisted I should be allowed to go. But I stood my ground about allowing the other vehicles too. Unfortunately, there was nothing one could do for the Okadas (commercial motorcycles), many of who had had two passengers, mostly women. They were forced to disembark and walk.’’

Adedayo, a social commentator and human rights advocate passionately supports the from onset protests but has now started advocating the protesters engage government to harvest the gains of the efforts asserted that “Nobody should be forced to join a protest. It should be of an individual’s free will!”

Talks of forcing others to join the protests rocking different parts of the country including casualties over inaccessibility to health care in cases of emergencies as a result of blocked roads have been on the rise before Adedayo shared his personal experience.

The #EndSars protest which has attracted widespread supports in and out of the country is a movement demanding – in general term – a better Nigeria.