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Aloy Ejimakor the Special Counsel to Biafra political activist, Nnamdi Kanu and the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has claimed that President Muhammadu Buhari 'indirectly stoked the #EndSARS protests through his ethnocentric policies', AllNews reports.
Ejimakor meanwhile did not elaborate in detail his 'Buhari ethnocentric policies' allegation.
After experiencing a reinvigoration in October 2020 following more revelations of the abuses of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit, mass demonstrations occurred throughout the major cities of Nigeria, accompanied by vociferous outrage on social media platforms.
About 28 million tweets bearing the #EndSARS hashtag have been accumulated on Twitter alone.
Solidarity protests and demonstrations by Nigerians in diaspora and sympathisers occurred in many major cities of the world.
The protests are notable for its patronage by a demographic that is made of entirely young Nigerians.
Within a few days of renewed protests, on 11 October 2020, the Nigerian Police Force announced that it was dissolving the unit with immediate effect.
There have been international demonstrations in solidarity with those happening in the country, and the movement has also grown increasingly critical of Buhari administration's response to the protests.
SARS officers have been alleged to profile young Nigerians, mostly males, based on fashion choices, tattoos and hairstyles.
They were also known to mount illegal roadblocks, conduct unwarranted checks and searches, arrest and detain without warrant or trial, and extort young male Nigerians for driving exotic vehicles and using laptops and iPhones.
Legal practitioner, Ejimakor, via his known Twitter handle on Wednesday berated the Nigerian Army for some of their activities during the recent demonstrations in the West African country, particularly the treatment of civilians at Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos on October 20 and the military operation in Oyigbo, Rivers State afterwards.
He described the #EndSARS protest as 'a popular uprising by Nigerian youths'.
The militarist suppression of the #EndSARS, which culminated in the #Lekki & #Obigbo massacres is precisely the wrong response to containing a popular uprising by #NigerianYouths. After all, it was @MBuhari that indirectly stoked the protests through his ethnocentric policies.
— aloy ejimakor (@AloyEjimakor) November 11, 2020
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