Lawmaker Calls For Help Over Post #EndSARS Violence

A Lagos State lawmaker, Mr Rasheed Makinde, yesterday raised concern over bloody violence, burning and looting in Ifako-Ijaiye area under the disguise of #EndSARS protests.
Makinde, representing Ifako-Ijaiye State House of Constituency II in Lagos Assembly, said in a statement that scores had been killed in Fagba, Iju and Abattoir areas in the clashes which had assumed ethnic dimensions.
“The #EndSARS protest has taken another turn in Ifako-Ijaiye Constituency 1 and 2 as dozens of people have been feared dead and hundreds sustaining degrees of injuries. Property are not spared, dozens of tricycles and two trucks were burnt.
“In what looks like a season film which end is not in sight, has continued to spread to other communities within Ifako-Ijaiye, such as, Oja Oba, Agric, Panada, Elere, Iju, Station, Akute, Alamutu, Obawole among others, and residents are no longer safe.
“We need help – the Army, the Anti-Riot Policemen, and other security architecture need to be deployed to Fagba now as the situation here is degenerating into communal and ethnic crisis.
“Nobody is safe, nobody has a deep sleep since the last 48hours, we are all in panic. I have received different footages and reports, I saw video of children being killed, mother being massacred and youths are now taking laws into their hands.
“My constituency is burning and I cannot be here as their representative and pretend as if all is well, when my people are being killed,” Makinde said.