just over a month since nigerians took
to the streets to protest against police
brutality some demonstrators say
they are now being targeted by
authorities for their participation
in the end source movement now in early
october young nigerians began
demonstrating calling for the ban of
sars that was a notorious police unit
that had long been accused of violent
harassment now the protest erupted after
a video showed
a sars officer allegedly shooting a man
in delta state before
driving off now peaceful protests
organized
under the hashtag nsars spread across
the country
and to nigerian diaspora communities
around the world
the two weeks of protests ended when
security forces fired live
rounds on demonstrators in lagos killing
several people
okay so for more on this crackdown uh on
in size activists i'm joined at the
table by
our very own tomi oladipo good to see
you tommy so just how do people say that
they're being targeted by the
authorities in this in this crackdown
well there's a range of complaints first
of all local media were reporting that
uh the central bank had obtained a court
order
to freeze the accounts of a list of
people who had taken part
uh in in the in the protests uh we've
also
heard reports of people being picked up
from their homes from different
locations being arrested
uh we're just onto some tweets now of
complaints of some of these
arrests where people are saying they
because they took part in the
in the protests they are being targeted
this person
lists six people in abuja who were
picked up
um and says that these people are being
detained in prison for covering or
participating
uh in the protest so go to the next
tweet um
which uh is one of the main one of the
main voices
is a comedian who who said armed thugs
came
that came to disrupt the protest were
not arrested up until now none of them
is in detention
it's the peaceful protesters who are
being arrested and intimidated and he
lists
a journalist who died in one of these
protests who was taken away by police
and then his body was found and nobody
has been held accountable for that uh
they've been attempts to deregister
an advocacy organization that took part
in these
in this movement as well uh some people
have uh fled for their safety
uh and even some people's passports have
been seized to prevent them from
leaving the country wow okay um have
have the authorities the officials in
nigeria said anything about
about what's going on the arrests the
seizing of passports
bank accounts being frozen we've not had
a sort of blanket
uh claim of responsibility targeting the
nsar's movement
um the the authorities will refer to
specific cases and for example with the
seizing of the passport the
the the interior ministry said this
there's uh they denied
allegations that there is a no-fly list
and they're saying people are allowed to
to travel but for example uh the
immigration department
said that some of the passports that
were seized were done so at the request
of an unnamed security
agency so you have cases like that the
police have come out to say that
and they even put out a statement saying
that they are going to use legitimate
force if there's any
violent protests going on so this is an
attempt to hit back really
right tommy we don't have too much more
time quickly what is the state of the
insults movement now
the people are no longer on the streets
as we know but the the movement is still
going online they've stopped fundraising
for now
uh they're still trying to help people
who are wounded in the in the
um in the protests and people who are
arrested and trying to get them out
but as a whole it doesn't have the same
momentum it once had
but you never know if there were to be
another killing who's to say what would
happen but
the people are still upset at the at the
way the government has handled this all
right
tommy oladipo as eva thank you