Six years after the #EndSARS demonstration, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, national chairman of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), has stated that Nigeria has not learned anything from the incident.
Speaking on Politics Today on Channels Television on Tuesday, Baba-Ahmed claimed that the problems that drove young Nigerians to the streets in 2020 still exist.
He claimed that since police brutality, a lack of accountability, and poor governance have persisted, the dissolution of SARS was insufficient.
He claims that although the judicial panels established during the demonstration gave people hope, their recommendations were not entirely carried out.
Nothing has changed, he claimed, since police continued to use tear gas on young people commemorating the sixth anniversary at Lekki Toll Gate today. “We have not shown our young people that protesting for good governance is not a crime,” he stated. The pain will not heal until those who perished at Lekki receive justice and reparations,” he stated.