By Valentine Amanze, Online Editor
No fewer than 400 Nigerians on Saturday, October 24, 2020, stormed
Streets of London in support of the #EndSARS protesters and mourning of many of them murdered by the military at the Lekki Tollgate, Lagos on October 20, 2020.
The protesters, who chanted anti-government slogans, blamed President Muhammadu Buhari for the killing of the peaceful protesting youths, who were against the loathed Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).
Black-clad demonstrators, mostly part of Britain’s large Nigerian diaspora, held signs reading “End SARS, end police brutality” and sang “Buhari is a dead man” as they made their way through the streets of the capital.
Others waved Nigerian flags, with some splashed with red paint to make them look bloodstained, while some wore green and white masks and shouted through loudspeakers as they protested at London landmarks, including Parliament Square and the BBC.
Recall that the shooting of unarmed demonstrators by Nigerian soldiers sparked international condemnation and unleashed chaos in Africa’s biggest city of Lagos.