Hoodlums have
set on fire the toll gate of the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge, as #EndSARS protests
degenerated in Lagos.
This followed the imposition of curfew and the drafting of the armed policemen and soldiers at the flash points of protests.
All the
cubicles of the toll gate were burning, according to video clips made available
online Tuesday night,
Protesters
had defied the 24 hour curfew imposed by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, which was
to become effective from 4pm.
Although the
governor rescheduled the effective time for the curfew to 9pm, armed soldiers
and policemen stormed the Lekki Toll Plaza, on Ozumba Mbadiwe, just after dawn.
They shot at
the protesters who were gathered there.
The number of
casualties is still uncertain.
But as at
10pm, the protesters, who failed to leave the scene, when the shooting started,
were hemmed in at both sides of the road, by the armed men, unable to leave.
Governor
Sanwo-Olu has, meanwhile ordered a probe into the shooting.
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