There has been a deployment of armed security agents, especially policemen and soldiers, to the notorious Lekki Toll Gate, following threats of fresh #EndSARS protests. In Abeokuta, security agents were deployed to checkmate protests.
In Osun State, a motley crowd of youths took to the streets in Osogbo and headed for the State House of Assembly to lay their their complaints.
The Ogun State Police spokesman, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said it was wicked and callous of anyone to contemplate protests after the aftermath of the October protests. Ogun and Lagos were badly hit by the past protests.
Some youth groups and individuals took to social media to mobilise for the new protests to push for the release of all protesters arrested after the October and the unfreezing of all accounts frozen by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
Armed operatives were spotted at the Toll gate area on Monday.
On Sunday, Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, said, “Some unpatriotic individuals and groups, are planning to embark on the replica of the recent destructive and violent #EndSARS protest that left pains and agonies in Lagos State.
“The Lagos State Police Command wishes to re-echo and remind the general public that the Government of Lagos State, businesses, individuals and security families still groan in losses and pains that the last violent #EndSARS protest occasioned.
“In the light of the above, the Lagos State Police Command, therefore, warns those who might want to disguise under #EndSARS protest to cause another set of mayhem, brouhaha and violence in the state to desist from such plans as the police and other security agencies will not fold their arms seeing individuals or groups orchestrating another violence and anarchy in the state.
“The command wishes to reiterate that any unlawful gathering, procession or protest will be suppressed professionally in accordance with the provisions of the law.”
In Ogun State on Monday, a statement by the command spokesperson, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said “It has come to the knowledge of Ogun state Police Command that some misguided individuals are planning to stage a violent protest tagged “ENDSARS Phase II” today, 7th of December 2020 in Ogun State .
“While the command recognizes that it is the right of citizens to employ protest to express their grievances over issues of governance, there is however nothing at present that calls for such protest in the gateway state, except for those who see troublemaking as a lucrative business”.
“No reasonable person after the massive destruction of properties and loss of lives occasioned by the recent #EndSARS protest would again be contemplating another violent protest so soon. It is the most callous thing to conceive and do.
“In Ogun state, we have, since the end of #EndSARS protest been enjoying well-deserved peace. Socio-economic activities have resumed fully.
“Schools have also resumed, and the children, in particular, can be seen happily resuming and closing from schools.
“Only an enemy of the people, therefore, would wish to re-enact the #EndSARS mayhem.”