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It was a fateful night at the Lekki Tollgate in Lagos State, with conditions that were ripe for disaster. A tragedy that shook the world. On that penultimate night of the peaceful demonstrative rallies, a Twitter user tweeted that the army was on its way to the tollgate. But innocent Nigerian youths maintained their positions. Armed with just placards & our loud voices, & singing the National Anthem at the top of our lungs, we thought those were symbolic & would save us. WE WERE WRONG! This is a very sad Nigerian haunting story; the scars are far from over. Overwhelmed by pent-up anger & bursting from the inside to be heard, we never imagined that the armed forces who are meant to protect us were out for blood. At around 7:45 p.m. on 20 October 2020, our comrades stationed on the lookout spotted the Nigerian Army directly ahead. By the time the army arrived & opened fire on unarmed peaceful protesters, it was already too late! Overcome by the force of numbers & bullets, confusion & chaos ignited. Many youths died; others lived to count the losses. The cross movement of statistics of the horror were staggering. And when the sound of the gun died down, the army took the dead bodies with them The Nigerian Army are guilty of genocide. It took almost six years for morgues & coroner’s reports to come forward with the truth And when Bola Tinubu was finally asked to comment on the massacre, he said, “How are they there? Why were they there? What kind of characters were they?” He showed no sign of remorse for the children gunned down in their prime. He carried on as if nothing happened! But the CNN captured everything. Governor Babajide Sanwolu of Lagos would later confirm that children actually died at the tollgate. “Why are you killing us?” A CNN investigation exposed what really happened at the Lekki tollgate, casting doubt on the Nigerian government’s official false narrative. EndSARS is a marathon, not a sprint…….. Someday, somehow, & in some ways, our comrades will get the justice they deserve. Victory at last & closure for the families. An end to trepidation & moral turpitude. #EndSARSMemorial #EndSARSProtest #LekkiMassacre #Lekkitollgate #EndSARS