Joy Anyim
Suspected hoodlums camouflaging as #EndSARS protesters, on Monday, attacked and injured 14 operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), in Lagos State.
The operatives, who were driving in five patrol vehicles, were heading to their beats to relieve colleagues who had been on duty all weekend, when they were attacked on Herbert Macaulay Way, Yaba area of Lagos.
It was gathered that the hoodlums number over one hundred had on sighting the RRS patrol vehicles, assumed they were on a mission to stop the protesters.
The hoodlums allegedly hurled stones, broken bottles and sticks at the officers, destroying their operational vehicles, while 14 of them sustained various degrees of injuries.
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The Lagos Police Public Relations (PPRO), Olumuyiwa Adejobi, had earlier stated that the Lagos Police Boss, Hakeem Odumosu had directed all operatives not to be come confrontational, while dealing with protesters.
Adejobi who also spoke on the blockage of major roads by protesters in the state, said the protesters are enjoying their human right.
“We have told them and they said no they won’t leave the roads, it is good they are doing it to their fellow Nigerians. Many of them don’t know why they are protesting. Many of them are not reasonable. When they see a policeman, they want to attack them. They say they are protesting for the interest of the police, yet they are fighting the police.
“If not for the fact that we are just look at them and try to manage confrontational issues, it would have degenerated, but the CP has said just leave them if they slap you run away, if they want to collect your gun, run away with the gun. If anything happened the police will be abused, so it is better we just look at them as they do their thing, ” he stated.
