Roads blocked in nigeria in defiance of president's call for calm

The protests have stopped traffic in lagos, the capital abuja and many other large cities in nigeria, a country of 196 million people. Nigeria’s military has denied responsibility for that shooting. But protesters also demonstrated against police brutality and bad governance in the country. Nigeria's president muhammadu buhari has urged to young people to halt protests against police brutality and instead engage in talks on police reforms.

The army has denied soldiers were at the site of the shooting, where people had gathered in defiance of the curfew. The demonstrators have not been satisfied with the disbandment of the sars unit and are demanding an end to abuses and respect for human rights in all parts of the police force.

The international criminal court has told the bbc that it will "Analyse materials" it has received about the violence which hit nigeria last month following protests against police brutality. Amnesty international’s crisis response experts investigated and verified social media videos and photographs that confirm the nigerian security forces were present at the lekki toll gate when nigerian newspapers the shootings occurred. Nigerians protesting police brutality met with tear gas protests have broken out across nigeria after a video circulated alleging to show members of the special anti-robbery squad, known as sars, shooting a man dead. Nigeria dissolves controversial police unit after protests police disbands special anti-robbery squad with immediate effect, prompted by days of protests across the country against alleged brutality by its members.

The incident in lekki came just hours after governor sanwo-olu warned on twitter that the growing protests against police brutality in nigeria had "Degenerated into a monster that is threatening the well-being of our society." the protests turned violent wednesday after the military’s shooting as mobs vandalized and burned police stations, courthouses, tv stations and a hotel. There were prison breaks and attacks on police stations and even on lagos’s international airport.

By october 20th several states, including lagos, had imposed 24-hour curfews. The protesters who had been camped at the lekki tollgate in lagos for the past two weeks decided to carry on sleeping there, in spite of the curfew, so that they’d be ready to protest the next day. He was not prepared, however, to let his beloved daughter become collateral damage in a protest. His warning to stay away from demonstrations seemed like sound advice to me, and my friends felt the same way.