The Lagos police command has released all protesters earlier arrested for marking the fourth anniversary of #EndSARS.
The protesters gathered at the Lekki tollgate area on Sunday for a memorial rally before they were resisted by armed police officers.
The police officers subsequently shot teargas canisters to disperse the protesters.
Defiantly, another group of activists arrived at the tollgate some moments later to continue the memorial walk.
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The police officers, stationed at the tollgate, arrested about 20 of them, including Taiwo Soweto, one of the leaders of the #EndBadGovernance movement.
Hours later, Inibehe Effiong, human rights lawyer, said the release of all protesters has been facilitated.
“We have secured the release of all the 22 activists who were arrested this morning at the Lekki Toll Gate while commemorating the 4th anniversary of the Lekki massacre,” Effiong tweeted.
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“We had a discussion with the commissioner of police who came over to the state CID in respect of the matter.”
Effiong said the items seized from the protesters were also returned to them.
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