General News of Wednesday, 9 December 2020
Source: pulse.ng
The president reiterated that no responsible government would look the other way as properties are burnt and businesses looted.
President Muhammadu Buhari says he was left disgusted with the coverage of the #EndSARS protests by foreign media organisations, including the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and America’s Cable News Network (CNN).
The #EndSARS protesters called for a scrapping of the notorious police unit, SARS (Special Anti-Robbery Squad), widespread police reforms and for an end to decades of police brutality and human rights abuses by law enforcement.
The protests were staged nationwide and in the diaspora in the early days of October, and were suppressed in Nigeria by armed soldiers and police officers who shot into a crowd of peaceful protesters at the Lekki toll gate on October 20, 2020.
Nigerian authorities claim there was no massacre on the night as was widely reported in the social media orbit.
Hoodlums took advantage of the break down in law and order in the wake of the protests and shootings to burn public and private poverty and loot warehouses.
On November 19, 2020, CNN published its special report on the Lekki shooting with the title: "How a bloody night of bullets and brutality quashed a young protest movement."
CNN's updated investigative report on the #EndSARS protestpic.twitter.com/KyyfBUSq7K
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