Police officers on Tuesday morning fired teargas to disperse residents, journalists and political figures gathered at the Lekki tollgate in Lagos for a memorial in honour of victims of the October 2020 #EndSARS protests.
Among those affected were the African Democratic Congress governorship candidate in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, and the Nigeria Democratic Congress governorship candidate, Funso Doherty.
The memorial was organised
However, the memorial was disrupted before participants could lay wreaths at the tollgate, as police officers deployed to the venue fired tear gas canisters to disperse the crowd.
A video shared
The incident prevented the wreath-laying ceremony from proceeding as planned.
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