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look at the in southport that quote, for a stop to put these harassment in our street the be it risky, man, you talk to the victims and authority which is the straight to find out how young people relate to the pony today. well i left behind the electrical good if one of the major way. oh, major guy that to process is a specialized robbery. sorry was shot. it all the way and debbie, debbie shooting with the carrier to agents shooting out to protest that many get injured and some even died august event where stream gun is guy ground by a popular niger and the day cause the do i clearly remember that night before i felt as i watched the events of,

i could hear the sporadic squad shock. i'm keep all your help. i could select them . you might be wondering what led to the shipping and how things escalate had so quickly did our be a report. asha la la wall breakdown for us in this report from the night over to with 22020 niger and police brutally gone down. young protesters. what come together to form one of the biggest youth movements in the country's history? just hours before the killings, thousands had got it to peacefully demonstrate it, gave rise in cases of police brutality. i know that the protests were largely peaceful because i was there reporting. but that evening, the protest songs in lagos would turn into cries for help. 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 unit, better known as sars, allegedly killed a young man in southern delta state and took away his scar. as the video of the

deadly assault leaked online, hundreds of young people took the social media event and share their own sause experiences. all of which were bad. saws was initially form in 1992 to tackle armed robbery in the country. but the units grew into an notorious force popular for a stuart in and abusing young nigerians by october 8th, the online anger against sars had grown so much that is built into the st. nationwide. illegals protesters mounted road blocks and shut down traffic. thousands got it at the licky toll gate a meter highway in which area of the city this would come to be the main demonstration points. their demands were simple, they wanted size, found bad officials prosecuted and for victims to be compensated. but they were also advocating for the officials themselves. they wanted them to be mentally evaluated, and for the salaries to be increase,

so that you'd have fewer reasons to extort on the 11th as the protest gain momentum, the niger and police finally scrap saws. this fisher, i'm to robberies. caudle denied europe willis and there was no, not saas. yeah, but deserved. but people were buying it. this was the 1st time the police was claiming to reform stars by then the demonstrations had become more of a movement anyways. and people were demanding, not just for police reform before better governors play animal and it will be there on monday, the 19th legos go, no budget is all new for me and traditional panel to look into saw the abuses for the protest continues still and say for some cases of police crackdowns, there were laws lead fiscal, although criminal elements has taught to infiltrate. as thousands of protesters got it again, lucky to get on tuesday, october 20th, they noted the things were different. people told me that they saw toll gave staff

. 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 . glove notion will lose imposed a curfew, tried to instill order, but many poor testers at the toll gate remained there. then at around 7 mental, the nigerian army holding on several vans and thought it to the own. demonstrators who could talk to people. eye 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, lutheran 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 the police violence, but denies the killings of october 20th survivors. dahl said, i'll keep looking for justice features if you can,

percentage efforts pert part because i needed to venture and south was indeed just beginning october 2020 sparked 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. who can do this on proxy process and rallies. have also become hallmark channel for young people to be call and make their voices heard. unfortunately, in many cases, we are still met with our street, the b. it came on the met with a group of niger area to discuss the lucky killing and how to prevent fox and event 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, a 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 do 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 vi i'm and so i just want you to give us an overview of what happened in 2020 because not everybody has a clear idea. i basically begun with some a lot of discontents and unhappiness and rage against the specialized robbery squad of the major on police. and youth just felt like you know what enough is enough.

and like that's almost as if we were coordinated. protests were happening in major cities in the southern parts of the country, especially. okay, now let's hear 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. why do you, do you are url at ease as i am? no, i am no you. oh boy, god believing and you know where you live fi or where you teach your 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 used cool. cool. sure. so peacefully. get slackening g last flag at least glasses dizzy. what when tied to, to comma, to sleep, to pick up what is no good about our country. what are the shore?

alright. piece for lovely energy was firing. okay, let me come to an officer who day in here because obviously the police officers actually what the receiving end doing is protest being accused of not just brutalizing young 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 people have had enough or they felt we're 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 southwest, which was

a lot of time to try to that guy. should we not? we happen, emilia, cloud o, c o p. go bye for now. do you and did i go, i'll record you to an out of the south. it asked who this is the from to not far. does god mean to join? because i don't know did go goes i that i'll get shots because most of it i go up are, you are, was up i the inside with his carseat does reduced to la 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 voted, put as whenever i go out, i'm given a cushion out the candy limit that we deliver to sergeant that our catalog. i'll get them out that do not the right to such my food. mousy gladly get my food from the young boy. first go luke internet for stuff it was wanted to what you're doing . first of all, we just sorted you miss austin spoke. i would love him to join the buddhist ok. now i should mention to our view as that of course size 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 are. but coming back to you of a 1000 a and j 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 forced them to to withdraw money is, is true. yeah. i mean how, how, how does it get to that point? okay. yeah it's, it's very wrong for any 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 better. maybe your hands on 3 to pardon my language around on twitter. but people actually stepped forwards to say, oh, this police of says the base we actually want to gets such reports. and when we get them, we are bringing this officers and make them face on this. mary archer, what is actually wrong? and if i must say this, i'm not saying i'm not trying to defend this bad behavior. it's not a defense. but,

you know, statistically you see that most times certain crimes are committed by sutton 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 this, these not a defense. but as a police officer, i remember the last 10 people that's confessed to this particular crime. actually have 14 in physical 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 nor comes from our mind is or the less than people are, is that 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. so,

and he was literally admitting by us as a police officer, no force of his is he's human. but so the next level, as the police officer and as, as on his vision, is to 1st of all admitted up by us that they are by us to was go you for people, i call i 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 here. you just no compensation, notting since day one to the pioneer. 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 ken obeyed things that dinner as typical in the political help structure on my segment. rip, i'm this kid who, what are you scared of? i'm scared all my life because they adjusted angry. god meant as the angry bullish just angry the quote you can come out,

challenge them in the court of law. it will show crazy. let me come to office. so 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. is this how you're feeling? honestly. i don't agree with him. that's police officers are angry because of answers. we knew that the youth started this process. we're not violent. we acknowledged that. so the, the protests were our turn hijacked by some hoodlums from colonel scott. i think he should use the right. i think. okay, the right word. the process. whenever jack, nobody jacks to protect the protests was attacked. so who attacked these brutus? the process was at sacked using government owned properties, government's own efforts. so are you suggesting, sir, 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. then you're saying it on the day, on the 9th of the lackey massacre, we were able to get about 21. people with the same shapes of the same ships of cutlass like this, mush, etc, the same, they had the same tags. and so it was like they were giving to them. so we got about 20 to one of these people. i still have a, i mean must do all the videos we played at the panel. that was actually what made a 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 were attacked. many police sessions were burned down. i don't know if you, if you're away that many police officers were killed when police officers, we'd be headed to live and we many, many winejobs us where,

where are roasted on eating. these are facts, and i will tell you that when this process started, i would check what they were fighting for. men of us were happy because our welfare was part of it so, so, so somewhat 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 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 oh, the every day yesterday the 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 moody i renewed as by dot. you can dream sincerely speaking . we know that the, our web, our comments are crazy. so we do need to be crazy,

so we need to be good bye, brenda. total luck. all sure. do dinner 1st. t. v. good. now a butare cod rule to do. all those things is not by shout is not by okay. look at it already bought car we got just is it do or what new did true to oh ok. jail let's hear for me is good to hope that i mean hope is is free is good to hold that against be a different game. there are electrons immediately offer and sauce, and the thought i was on of louis irvine, the history of the country. does that surprise you though? it doesn't, it doesn't, and we have to sit in the weird the are right now. there's nothing to say daddy voting dynamics of nigeria in terms of voter turnout in other because if you could have a vote on all the opportunities of woodson would change, we do 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 nigeria, which will inevitably happen, come together to protest something they're not met by bullets. well answers was

a lennon process for everyone. if we know you're going to protest, we have to put, i'm certain measures in place to make sure it's not. i checked glass on, i said i checked it with your tongue. okay. attack. okay. so that was with my years in place to make sure that there is no at sack. and i am 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. ok, 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 a better name. here, 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 between the hours over with in the us it dr. without it is since what else would play off utah's relatives and don't buckets on those be just be shouted runciman online and also put as religion gets involved in politics in nigeria here in northeast the north. you cannot quote you ladies of j. j started by quoting fella equity, the great master of music, and the things that he was singing about in his album of 1977, a still very much resonating today. how do we stop that cycle for supposed to sit at request for a better society? easy never ending one, and that's not unique to nigeria. it's universal. democracies like the american as old as to 50 years old on over to continue to battle for the street on. so he's got a question of how do we talk to him? 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 stars protest? i think understanding that we form as youth a critical mass there can really move his 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 work you put 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 actually 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 the youth, they know go tire. thank you for watching. ah, we be you, we noble at y 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 ad be 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 i reach out 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 us to find out more about the relationship young my jones today, 2 years after n sars have with the police. my colleague only saw heed the streets of me got to fire and work and since the end sounds movement back in october, 2020 a lot has been said about have been better police in nigeria. but 2 years later, the question to ask is how a police in and indeed police relations been what is this is of nigeria as is improved from the kind of situation that spike and that's protest all had gotten worse. i am here at georgia, i got ariel blay goes,

and i'll be going around the streets to ask people what they think it was like in south, never helpless. well, your reports do if there is any the need. if anything goes wrong with your interaction with the body, those up to police a friend or a friend, my guy, or not your friend, well it has improved in the says are they stopped the whole stop. i started and i ross in a sense like social media has a huge party documenting police interactions in nigeria and these days, even to police, sometimes ca, situations where they get harassed themselves. almost everyone carries the mobile phone. and sometimes it is used to record videos that can serve as evidence that many young people also 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, i go, 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, i get profound every day every day of my life and it doesn't stop. this seems like is never going to end. i mean, course i will dread log, so i have thought to they this doesn't define me. my parents are not defining situations involve in police profile and can sometimes become unpredictable lead into violence or assault or loads him. he says he has also been held at gunpoint by a police officer. why i don't know why. i should be active, the police why i should be ok to my community way. why should be poor the gone, the library full 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 is the very sense when i drop police force do that. it's been bolt for bribery and corruption on this wrong. people in iran side, teeth across generations. young, oh, thank you lisa and all of you who shared your thoughts and experiences with us. feel free to comment on you tube, instagram. facebook. all right to was at 77 at d, w dot com. we have one last piece for you today in music video by dan dan ross last he lat create that question. the 4 d w. it's called here us out and flourish to cool illegal. thank you for watching. yes. be only demanding for ya to lead us embassy in peace. what about stop the

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