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that called pro stop to put these harassment in our street the be it risky, man, you talk to the victims and authority which is the street to find out how young people relate to the pony today. welcome to our so that's the hey me, we'll let you call again. it's one of the major way on major dial out to fraud says it gives the best i like to rob. sorry for shot. it's also way and debbie, debbie shooting with security agents shooting out to protest that many get injured and some even died. others events where streamed on his background by popular nigeria and dd called the do. i clearly remember that night and before i felt as i watched the events oh, hold on. you could hear the sporadic shots out for help. i suppose

you might be wondering what led to the shipping and how things had so quickly w report, sasha la la was received out for us in this report from the navy with 22020 niger and police literally gone down. young protest is what come together to form one of the biggest youth movement in the country of history. just hours before the killings. thousands had got to peacefully demonstrate a gave rise in cases of police brutality. i know that the protests were largely peaceful because i was there, reported. but that evening the protest songs illegals would turn into christ for health and the same place where people called for their rights to be upheld would be the same place. they were killed. it all started on a 3rd of october, policemen from the special anti robbery squad. you need better known as far as allegedly killed a young man in southern delta state and took away his scar as

a video of the deadly assault looked online. hundreds of young people took the social media event and share their own saw experiences, all of which were bad. saw initially formed in 1992 to tackle armed robbery in the country. but the unit grew into in notorious for the popular for a stuart in an abusing young nigerian. my 8th, the online anger against science had grown so much that is built into the st. nationwide. illegal protesters mounted roadblocks and shut down traffic. thousands got it. lucky toll gate in major highway in the area of the city. this would come to be the main demonstration for their demands was simple. they wanted size band that officials prosecuted and for the victims to be compensated. while they were also advocated for the officials themselves, they wanted them to be mentally evaluated, and for the salaries to be increased,

so that you'd have fewer raises to extort on the 11th as the process gain momentum, the nigeria police finally scrap thought decision robberies, court of denied europe police otherwise known the size deserved, but people were buying it. this wasn't the 1st time the police was claiming to reform size by then the demonstrations had become more of a movement anyways, and people were demanding not just for police reform, for better governors. play animal and it will meet on monday, the 19th legos gum, nobody will lose international panel to look into saw abuses. well, the process continues still and think for some cases of police crackdowns they were laws lead to school. although criminal elements has started to infiltrate. as thousands of protesters got it again, lucky to get on tuesday, october 20th. they noted the things with different people told me that they saw the toll gate stop. we move in ccc cameras installed in the area and that as evening

fell, the street lights wouldn't come on leaving the place completely dark at around 4 pm grove, no show lou imposed a curfew. tried to instill order, but many poor testers at the toll gate remained there. then at around 7 mental denija, an army rolling on several vans, a thought to the own. i'm demonstrated to could i talk to people? i witnesses told me they counted several buddies that night taken away by the army . but he wasn't over as one of the killers traveled. angry mob through the streets, looting shops, burning buildings, and attacking policemen. 12 people died according to amnesty international and many more were injured. the nigerian government has set up judicial panels to look into a police violence but denies the killings of october. 20th survivors, the fellow keep looking for justice features if you can because i need to fight

it would fight for my kid because i need a bit. and you and sauce was indeed just the beginning. october 2020 spots a new wave of national consciousness in many nigerians. and we are seeing the play out as next year's presidential election dross closer. there is a high level of youth engagement with school candidates on proxy processed. and while you have also become hallmark channel for young people to be call and make their voices heads. unfortunately, in many cases we are still matter hopefully from the police. why street the b? it came on the metal with a group of nigeria to discuss the lucky killing and how to prevent fox and events from happening again. with hello and welcome back to the 77

percent this week a we are in nigeria. more specifically, lagos, the city that gave us fell equity, who, by the way, in 1977 in his title track for the album, them give us them leave tears, sorrow, and blood explained to how the police officers were at that time. brutalizing, the citizens of nigeria fast forward to 2020 and his words still resonated as young people gathered to protest what they said was ill treatment by the police officers until we're here to find out why to african government seems so threatened by protest held by the youth who better to answer this question for me than fellow nigerian. and i'm going to start are with by i'm and so i just want you to give us an overview of what happened in 2020 because not everybody has a key idea. so i basically began with some a lot of discontents and unhappiness and rage against the special ed robbery squad, optimize young police. and youth just felt like you know,

what enough is enough. and like that's almost as if they were coordinated. protests were happening in major cities, southern parts of the country, especially. okay. let's you from suffer because i understand you are the protest as well. and obviously we wouldn't be talking about these protests if they hadn't ended in unfortunately death. so how did it come to be that something that started organically and that in bloodshed, i think one of the selling points alcala, that of the answers protest was that there was no coordinated leadership. people just appointed themselves to, you know, coordinate, collect, and distribute resources. there was a lot of heavy pullet to size and like in the f city where some of the boys who disrupted the protest, testified that they were given 500 narrow or so you could easily by street power. yeah. by any one. okay. let me hear from matthew aka precious stone. oh, who was not only at the protest,

but unfortunately actually ended up being shot. so perhaps that by telling us what took you to the protest, why did you feel that it was so important for your voice to be heard that day? many times files are stored me on it. why do you do your url at ease as i am? no, i am no you. oh boy, god believing and you know where you live fi, or will you teach you bad boy? oh boy, i'm no one of them. but when a hardy, to dutch ha, people in utah, mon junior, will godaddy let top this sucks to clean offense. it is of this country. so i need to johnny porter. yes. fully. can you explain to me how you felt when you got there? what was the energy like, how did you feel in the early hours jack missouri was so lovely, but i never believed. hadn't enjoyed. i use cool. cool. sure. so peacefully. yeah. get flagged in july flag atlas, russia dizzy. what we entitled to comma to to so to speak, or what is no good or bad? our country, what are near shore? alright. peaceful, lovely energy with via and. okay,

let me come to an officer who day in here. because obviously the police officers actually what the, you see being and doing this protest being accused of not just brutalizing your people and harassing them. is this true? would you say in your estimation? yes, actually we have am saying reports of police officers been excessive in their use of force, but still it didn't mean that the entire police force was, was brutal or was insensitive to the plight of the youth. and these were things we're looking to. we have of departments on the force of looks into this complains . well i guess of people i've had enough or the felt will not moving fast enough. okay, i'm, i want to hear from allow me day because i see that your hair style is dreadlocks, which i understand in this country can be a way for people to be targeted. have you experience some of the things that p 2 r p peter was saying was obviously aroused by selfish as lots of time to try to

that guy. should we not? we happen. amelia cloud o. c o p co. bye for now, do you and did i go, i'll record you to an out of the south is ask you this is the from to not that does god mean to join because i don't know. don't go outside that. i'll get shots because most of it i go up are, you are, was up at the inside with his coffee does reduced. does with the harassment doesn't talk with you. okay. that as it out about as a game you plus muffled you for the buddhist. cut out so long the pulls us are asked me to pull up my s 5 vote to put as well. if i go out, i'm given a cushion out the country limit that we deliver to sergeant that our catalog. i'll get them out that do not write such my food. mousy gladly give my food. come the young boy, 1st go luke internet for stuff you don't want to do what you're doing. foster for future outsourcing is asked to stop out of him to join the buddhist. okay. now i should mention 2 of you was that of course saws as a squad was later disbanded. although young people here see that it was quickly

replaced with a force that was very similar to that a but coming back to you of a certain day in j. know your, he, i'm going to come back to you. i had reports while preparing for this. the people would even have their telephones checked to have police officers look through their bank account balance and have and force them to to withdraw money. is it true? yeah, i mean how, how, how does it get to that point? okay. yeah it's, it's very wrong for a police officer to check in with his foreign bank account and we, we appreciate those people who just don't complain and just maybe make her maybe her hands on twitter. pardon my language around on twitter. but people actually step forwards to say, oh, this police of says, did this, we actually want to gets such reports and when we get them, we are bringing this officers and make them face on disciplinary action. what is actually wrong? and if i'm a say this, i'm not saying i'm not trying to defend these bad behavior, it's not the face,

but you know, statistically you see that most times certain crimes are committed by satin is group and the often not always, but they often have this look this tattoo. i'm been, i mean yeah, yeah, that's profiling profiling. yes. but for a police officer, what are we saying? nobody in nigeria should wear dreadlocks. like i said from the beginning of these, these not a defense. but as a police officer, i remember the last 10 people that's confessed to this particular crime actually have seen in this is the call character is maybe not physical, but in this is you would not. you would not blame me if i see somebody which doesn't. this is on the 1st there comes my mind is or the last interval or is it okay, let me come to gigi because he's laughing at your comment. i'm not sure if it's because he thinks it's funny. i share your thoughts j. j. so i was laughing because he was fits in perfectly into the bureau spectrum of buyer,

sir. and he was literally admitted by us as a police officer. no 4th of his is, he's human. but so the next level as a lease officer and as on the system is successful admitted up by us that they are by us to was were you for people like all our media and between them off on doing all of those things. but p t i want to hear from you despite the fact that the government admitted it's fault and said we should have shot you and you were given compensation, you still don't feel safe for her. you just no compensation, notting truth there. want to the pioneer or one every to you does not, not upon our shot on my church, the blood p. s. m, are from the back yet. so i know carol paid things that dinner of the full in the political help structure on my segment. rip, i'm just kid. well, what are you scared of? i'm scared all my life because they adjusted angry god meant asked the angry polish just angry. the quote you can come out,

challenge them in the court of law. it will show crazy. let me come to an officer who day in here because pete, he said very passionately, that police officers are still angry because the youth dead to challenge the authority. they dare to stand up against you, and is this how you're feeling? honestly. i don't agree with him that police officers are angry because of answers. we knew that the youth started, the zone protests were not violent. we acknowledged that so the, the protests were our turn. hijacked by some hoodlums from chronology on her time. i think you should use the right. i think. okay, the right word, the protest. whenever a jack, nobody, i jacks the proto, the protests was attacked. so who attacked these protests? the protest was at sacked using government's own properties, governments own aside from so are you suggesting, sarah, that the people, the young hoodlums as the officer has called them here,

who infiltrated the protest was sent by the government? this is a very serious claim. i am not suggesting we have seen your say it on the day on the 9th of the lucky master car, we were able to get about 21. people with the same shapes of and the same ships of cutlass like this, mash, etc, the same, they had the same tags and so it was like they were given to them. so we got about 3 to one of these people. i still have, i, i mean, most did all the videos were played at the panel. that was actually what made panel to which their decision. we took this people to the police and guess what? we're told that they are not their problem. all right, let's come back to the office a. i think it's important that you able to respond and we'll look at the answers protest. but everybody turns a blind eye to the fact that many police sessions we attacked many police sessions were bonds down. i don't know if you, if you're aware that many police officers were killed, well police officers will be heard. they live and many, many of the jobs us where,

where are rusted on getting. these are facts. and i will tell you that when this process started, and we'll check what they were fighting for, many of us were happy because our welfare was part of it so, so, so some was behind the scene where given them this not like, go ahead, we're going to benefit from okay, so how did it come to be that then people who are armed by the government are opening fire on their own citizens who are and i'm going to ask you if, if that statement is a statement or fox, will you tell me who else has fire arms in this country who will police where, oh they, every day yesterday their voice there will cover firms from hoodlums. ok so, and i'm wondering from you a p t. would you ever participate in a protest again, given what happened to you again and again and again and again, because i could not ed nudity, i renewed as by a dot to kandrique since ellis, mickey, we know that the, our web, our comments are crazy. so we do need to be crazy,

so we need to be good bye. bring that also luck. all sure. do the necessity being good. now, butare cod rule to do all those things is not by saudi is not by. okay, look at it. alright. but i, we got just is it do or what knew the true to oh ok. jail let's hear for me is good to hope that i mean hope is is free is good to hope that is going to be a different game. there were electrons immediately after and sauce and baton. i was on of lewis irvine, the history of the country. does that surprise you though? it doesn't, it doesn't, and we have to sit in the way they are right now. there is nothing to say daddy voting dynamics of nigeria in terms of voter turnout in other because we put our vote on or the opportunity of woodson would change with the lessons that are coming in less than a year. and i want to come back to you office on monday, and because what can we do so that the next time young nigerian which will inevitably happen, come together to protest something they're not met by bullets. well, answers was

a learning process where everyone, if we know you're going to protest, we have to put um certain measures in place. make sure it's not. i checked glass on i said i checked everybody else i can. okay at sack. okay. so that was with my years in place to make sure that there is no at sac. and i'm going forward. like you said, inevitably, processes going to happen again. but we hope we have lens. we hope that it will become floating next time. okay, sarah, i want to hear from you solutions going forward because like i said, inevitable protests will happen here. every single person in danger, once it better nature, the government needs to understand that you need to constantly talk to these people . you need to consulting, talk to people so that you can know what their grievances are and how to meet them in the middle. okay. ah, i'd like to hear from you allow me day in the future. what do you think young people need to do to make the conversation easier between government and yourselves? police officers and yourselves. do do what magog youths shuttle try to get into

paula when it's going to be the $70000.00 to be in the also for with have been does it dr. wood also discussing what else would play for a future? well, obviously don't back out on those be just be shouted granting on online and also put as we need to get involved in politics. an idea here in the northeast north, we cannot quote you ladies of j. j started by quoting fella equity. the great master of music and the things that he was thinking about in his album of 1977, a still very much resonating today. how do we stop that cycle? first of all is the cedar request, where you better society is the never ending one. and that's not unique to nigeria, it's universal. democracies like the americans, as old as to 50 years old on over the continental battle for these freedoms. so it's not a question of how do we talk to them? it's a question of how do we make lives better every year, why we started be q less conclude with you? what do you see for the future of this country? posts and saws protests? i think understanding that we form as youth a critical mass that can really move the needle forward. is something that we need

to take very seriously. i mean, we formed like 60 percent of bacteria, the best we could do is get our pvcs. the more were it puts in a better change. you will see. all right, well, that's a fantastic place to wrap up this debate. the sun is going down. it's so beautiful here. and ashley feel really good in my heart, which so rarely happens at the end of debates. but that's because the young people here i asked, i'll protest, threatening to governments perhaps. but what i've had to day resoundingly is that they use their naga tire. thank you for watching a we b u. we know go why ever tire? meaning we, the youth will never be tired. and just to show how relevant these events are still to day, we got quite a number of reactions on social media where we previously add these debates on instagram, them well road. i don't have dreads or tattoos,

but i still got grabbed my police officer for not carrying my laptop receipts with me. what are we charged says the police man is actually not wrong. but the problem is, after questioning the person why extort money from them? thank you all for your comments. unfortunately, i can't read all of them out, but we want to find out more about the relationship young my jones to day 2 years after an sars have with the police, my colleague or lisa. he's the streets of legal to find out and work. and since the end sounds movement back in october 2020 a lot has been said about have been better police in by jerry o. but 2 years later, the question to ask is, how are policing? and indeed, police relations been with this, this is of nigeria, as is improved from the kind of situations that spike insights protests all as had gotten worse. i am here at georgia did break out area of lagos,

and i'll be going around the streets to ask people what they think he was like, and south never harpoon like the anti protests. i know that maybe did you see like a cognizant of do you have like a cognizance effect on those for these people because some of them must be variable truck. a brutal was scrutinizes, these people who keep them in check who your reports do. if there is anything, if anything goes wrong with your interaction with the police, the police or your friend and our friend, my guy, or not your friend, well, it has improved minnesota. they stopped the whole stop us on our us in a sense like social media has a huge party documenting police interactions in my gera. and these days, even did police sometimes recall situations where day gets harassed themselves.

almost everyone carries the mobile phone. and sometimes it is used to record reduce that cancer every day. many young people also are accused to police of negative profiling solely on the basis of their looks and experience at a lateral to me. kalu knows quite well. they do it every day. i go out every day i decide to hunger on my community, see my food day says chew my friends or wherever i find myself. yeah. get profound every day every day of my life and it doesn't stop. the it seems like is never going to end. i mean, course i, we're dread log, so i have thought to, and i, this doesn't define me. my parents do not define the situations involve in police profile and can sometimes become unpredictable lead into violence or assaults allowed to me says he has also been held at gunpoint by a police officer. why?

i don't know why i should be acting. the police. why? i should be up to my community why. why should we pull the gone to live rifle, to my he strip searched our trophy because i'm coming back from walk. i should the oxy, my society why i should be back in the police. what issues like these, when it comes to the police that make up everyday life in nigeria, also most striking, very sensitive. i drop police force do that. it's been bolt for bribery and corruption. on this ron speaking to niger on site crossing across generations, young on old thank you, lisa and all of you who shared your thoughts and experiences with us. feel free to comment on youtube, instagram, facebook, all right to was at $77.00 at d. w dot com. we have one last piece for you today in music video by dan dan ross

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