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Lekki Shooting: Gbajabiamila laments Lagos unrest, calls for calm

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October 21, 2020

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila has lamented the shooting that occurred at the Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos on Tuesday night.

In a statement on his official Twitter account, the Speaker called on Nigerians across the country to avoid the deaths of more people.

His statement read: “Events in my home state Lagos, last night and up until this afternoon, have left my heart heavy and my spirit disturbed.

“After sixty years, our democracy should have grown beyond the point where conflicting visions of nationhood result in violence on the streets and blood on the ground.

It is unavoidably and painfully clear that there were a number of casualties as a result of gunfire at the Lekki Toll Gate.

“Therefore, there needs to be a quick and thorough investigation to determine the facts of what happened last night in Lagos. Our nation urgently needs and the Nigerian people deserve an accounting of the acts that led to the events of last night.

“I urge for calm whilst we get a truer picture of events. In Lagos and everywhere else, too much blood has already been spilled in our country, let there be no more.

May God bless and keep you all. And may God bless and keep our Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Lagos, as well as other across the nations, has witnessed a rising number of protesters against police brutality which had grown beyond the shores of Nigerian for the past two weeks.

There have also been reports of violence which began a few days ago as hoodlums hijacked the protests in some places, wreaking havoc and vandalising properties.

A number of states in the country, including Lagos, have imposed a curfew in order to restore calm and order.