No Protester Should Die In Lagos, Mr Macaroni Tells Sanwo-Olu

Debo Adebayo known by his stage name Mr Macaroni, has told the Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to make sure that none of the people that participated in the June 12 protest in the state dies.

Macaroni said this in a message posted on his Twitter handle on Saturday.

He told the Governor to make sure that the incident that happened during the #EndSAR protest of October last year does not reoccur during the democracy day protest.

He said, “Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu @jidesanwoolu it is your duty to ensure that no peaceful protester dies today! Lagosians are under your watch.

“What happened during the #EndSARSProtest must not happen again. They are already beating up peaceful protesters. #June12thProtest.”

Men of the Lagos State Police Command on Saturday morning fired tear gas canisters at the protesters gathered at the Gani Fawehinmi Park in Lagos, venue of the June 12 Democracy Day protest.

The protesters were demanding an end to bad governance when they were tear-gassed by the security operatives.

Several digital flyers, widely circulated on social media on Friday, had publicised meeting points in Lagos, Gombe, Calabar (Cross River), Yola (Adamawa), Bauchi, Abeokuta (Ogun), Yenagoa (Bayelsa), Port Harcourt (Rivers), Ibadan (Oyo), Ilorin (Kwara), Enugu, Akure (Ondo), Yobe, and Zaria (Kaduna).

One poster by #RevolutionNow read, “Join the June 12 protest. No more poverty, hunger and insecurity in Nigeria… Enough Is Enough! Nothing can stop an idea whose time has come.”

Another poster for a protest in Kaiserslautern, Germany read, “Buhari must go! Let’s come together to say no to government funding terrorism: Boko Haram terrorism and banditry, one litre of petrol equals N165, bad roads, poor hospitals, kidnapping, economic recession, police brutality, disregard for the rule of law, poor health sector, poor education.”