The Police have arrested at least two protesters at the Lekki tollgate in Lagos during the EndSARS memorial protest.
Despite police repeated warning against the protest and heavy security presence at the tollgate, some persons had on Wednesday morning converged on the area where protesters were forcefully dispersed exactly one year ago.
The arrests, it was learnt, were made by the armed police who had stormed the area to enforce no protest order earlier issued by the security authorities.
One of those arrested claimed to be a journalist and the other was seen carrying a placard.
Debo Adebayo, the Comedian popularly known as Mr Macaroni, and Folarin Falana, rapper known as Falz, led an #EndSARS vehicular procession at Lekki tollgate in Lagos on Wednesday.
The duo had announced the procession on their Instagram handles on Tuesday.
“In memory of those who died that day and those we have lost to police brutality, we will: drive through the toll gate from 8-10 am; blast our horns in unison as we drive through and wave our flags,” the information on the e-flier read in part.
Around 9am, the entertainers joined by some youths rode in a convoy, waving flags at journalists and security operatives at the tollgate.
They said the procession was in memory of the EndSARS protest which ended controversially on October 20, 2020.
Lagos Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, had said his men would only allow any procession of vehicles around Lekki, or any form of protest and had deployed officers in the area.
The arrested journalist told newsmen that he works with LegitTV and that his phone, driver’s licence and other documents were taken away from him.
He spoke from a Lagos State Task Force van where he was kept by the police, identifying himself as Abisola.
A report by the Punch said about 30 police trucks and armed personnel were stationed at the tollgate.
It also reported a car procession in honour of those believed to have lost their lives at the tollgate when soldiers dispersed the EndSARS protesters on October 20, 2020.
The Lekki tollgate was where many youths gathered day and night to air their grievances against police brutality and bad governance.
The protest was later said to have been hijacked by hoodlums, leading to destruction of private and public properties in other parts of Lagos.