By Valentine Amanze, Online Editor
The U.S. democrat and politician, Hillary Clinton, has joined other world leaders in condemning the killing of the peaceful #EndSARS protesters in Nigeria by the soldiers.
The politician, who is also the wife of the U.S. former President, Bill Clinton, also appealed to the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Nigerian government
to stop the killings.
Clinton was reacting to the killings at the Lekki Toll Gate Area of the Lagos State
via her twitter handle on Tuesday.
She tweeted: “I’m calling on @mbuhari and the @hqnigerianarmy to stop killing young#EndSARS protesters. #StopNigerianGovernment.”
The incident happened at about 7:00 pm on Tuesday, when a group of soldiers arrived the venue, offed the streetlight, toll gate light and the CCTV before shooting into the crowd.
According to one of the protesters who was still at the scene of the incident at about 10:30pm, they were protesting peacefully when the armed security operatives came and opened fire at them.
“We were protesting peacefully after comedian, AY addressed us. There was nothing, we were still protesting peacefully. Then immediately, the street lights went off.
“People started shooting at us. We were able to recognise them, they were putting on uniform, they were military men, soldiers.
“We were lying down, waving our flags, telling them we are protesting peacefully, yet they were shooting directly at us.
“It wasn’t to drive us away, it was to kills us”.
