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I was almost killed by police during the Ali Must Go protest – Tunde Bakare

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Pastor Tunde Bakare of Citadel Global Community Church has recounted how he was almost killed by police during the Ali Must Go protest of 1978.

Bakare who was a student leader in the University of Lagos at the time took to the streets with other students to protest the hike in school fees.

He said that a bullet which narrowly missed him gunned down one of the peaceful protesters who was beside him.

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He said this in reaction to the Lekki toll gate shooting allegedly perpetrated by soldiers of the Nigerian Army against EndSARS protesters.

“As I reminisced on the unfortunate incident of the shooting of unarmed protesters by Nigerian soldiers, I recalled with solemnity how I almost lost my life in the Ali Must Go protests as armed policemen fired live bullets into a crowd of students protesting peacefully,” he tweeted.

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“Unfortunately, the bullet that narrowly missed me gunned down the young man who was beside me, Akintunde Ojo, after whom a library in UNILAG was subsequently named…it is painful that the younger generation has had to face the same beasts we fought in my generation. #EndSARS.”

The clergyman also spoke against the plan by the Federal Government to regulate social media.

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“Let me state, once again, that, although I have been a victim of misrepresentation and needless defamation of character on social media, I remain an advocate of freedom of expression,” he said.

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