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Heavy Security Presence At Lekki Tollgate For #EndSARS Memorial (Photos)

The Lekki tollgate is heavily guarded by police officers, amidst the third anniversary of the #EndSARS protest.

CITYNEWS NIGERIA gathered that a memorial walk was organised to commemorate the tollgate shooting during the nationwide #EndSARS protests of 2020.

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Security operatives on the 20th of October, 2020 reportedly fired live rounds into a crowd of armless young persons who had converged on the tollgate to protest decades of police brutality.

The death toll from the incident remains unclear, three years after.

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At the time of filing this report, heavy presence of police officers attached to the Lagos police command are at the Lekki tollgate.

See some pictures below:

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