Nigeria: Curfew in Ekiti, Abia, Plateau, Osun, Ondo Over #EndSARS Protest

21 October 2020

The governments of Ekiti, Abia Plateau, Osun and Ondo have declared 24-hour curfew in the states due to the growing concern on how the EndSARS protests, which started peacefully, have been hijacked by hoodlums.

In Ekiti, a release by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Biodun Oyebanji, said in the past 48 hours, there have been incidents of gang-rape, robberies, physical assaults on innocent people, looting and burning of a police station in the state.

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