{"id":12516,"date":"2023-03-08T17:02:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T17:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=12516"},"modified":"2023-03-08T17:02:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T17:02:02","slug":"endsars-victims-in-lagos-sanwo-olu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=12516","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve Provided Jobs, Empowerment For All #EndSARS Victims In Lagos – Sanwo-Olu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Babajide Sanwo-Olu<\/a>, governor of Lagos, says he has personally reached out and provided for all the victims of the #EndSARS protest in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n

The governor spoke in a chat with Arise TV on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The #EndSARS protest took place in October 2020 when youths across the nation took to the streets to demand an end to police brutality.<\/span><\/p>\n

The protest reached its crescendo on October 20 when officers of the Nigerian military shot<\/span><\/a> at demonstrators at the Lekki tollgate in Lagos.<\/span><\/p>\n

The incident ignited riots which saw property and government infrastructure destroyed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Two years on from the event, many youths, particularly on social media, are still holding the Sanwo-Olu-led administration responsible.<\/span><\/p>\n

Addressing the issue, Sanwo-Olu said the youths must \u201cdo roleplay\u201d and put themselves in his position to understand the situation.<\/span><\/p>\n

The governor said he had no control because the state government does not have authority over the police and the military.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYoung people do not do roleplay and sit back to reflect on what happened. It was not a flash event. It built up for three weeks. I do not have control. I do not control the military or the police,\u201d the governor said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOn the question of who ordered the [Lekki shooting], who ordered the police not to listen to me when I went to Magodo the other day? Who ordered the military out for our election last Saturday? It is not in my remit or space.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAll of the people \u2014 and I am saying this for the first time on national TV \u2014 that claimed that they were either injured or affected in one form or the other, I, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, have reached out to them and supported, given them jobs and empowerment and things for them to start right.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that is why you do not see anybody come out during this campaign period to say \u2018I was an #EndSars victim and I lost something,\u2019 because I have taken it up and I feel that is something for me as a father and a leader to do for them, and clear this air around it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In the aftermath of the #EndSARS protest, the Lagos government set up a judicial panel of inquiry and the body gave out N91 million<\/span><\/a> in compensation to victims of police brutality.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos, says he has personally reached out and provided for all the victims of the #EndSARS protest in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2811,6054,1652,3019],"class_list":["post-12516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-endsars","tag-arise-tv","tag-babajide-sanwo-olu","tag-empowerment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12518,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516\/revisions\/12518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}