 For more than a week in October 2020, peaceful protesters were on the streets of major cities across Nigeria. Demanding justice for victims of police brutality, the dissolution of the special anti-rabric court known as SAZ and the reform of the police force. On October the 20th, these protesters at the Lekitou Plaza, a key rallying point for demonstrations, refused to leave. Basically that day, that was on the 20th, at about noon, day for say 12 to 12, in the afternoon we got that information that was going to be copied and that copy will be starting at 4 p.m. But we were still present at the 2 p.m. And the question was, our demand we met, our five demands, as we did met before encoding the appeal on us, and we were still debating on that. Yeah, people were still protesting and saying they were going nowhere, knowing fully well that some people didn't even come from Lagos, some people came from outside Lagos. And yeah, roads are blocked, there was practically no movement. We're still debating on people insisting that until the government attend to our need. We got that information at about 2 p.m. or thereabouts, I really can't place my hands on the correct timing right now, that it caught you as the mood to I think 9 p.m., I mean, yeah, 9 p.m. And yeah, we started celebrating like okay, it's also an advantage for us to keep hearing and then anybody was preparing to go to their home. That was an ample time. So, but what we were doing that later in the afternoon, we started hearing gunshots. What started out as a peaceful practice for better governance and the better mangeria turned bloody that night. People falling down with gunshot wounds. I was an old man with a native all stained with blood. There was a guy beside me wearing white shirts. He was not Britain. He was just there. There was no gun wound on him, but he was just lifeless. There were a few other people who were shot and they were being carried from where they were to where we were all gathered. There was a lady that was shot and erased. I don't know if she's still alive. I'm just trying to find out. There was a guy that was shot in his ass and we're able to hold them still because they brought them from where they were shot at the toll gate because we're in a corner. We're at the FCC's center, so they brought them from there to here. So, we're trying to put on the bullet, trying to hold it down and we had to put pressure so it doesn't affect them. So we took them to the hospital. One of the protesters of Piano Jewel Day, also known as DJ Switch, streamed the shooting to more than 100,000 people on Instagram Live. Nigerians watched as people tried to remove a bullet from the tie of a protester as it not took his last breath. Before her battery died and the live stream ended, DJ Switch said they were surrounded by soldiers who were shot. Later in the evening, I think it was more senior military officer came in to kind of douse the tension and then he was trying to address us. You know, the protesters were like, this should have been the first thing, not shooting at us randomly without even, you know, engaging in any conversation. And so it kind of was trying to, you know, ask us to come down. And people were not ready to listen because at that point, people were ready. In George, some people were already dead. And I somewhat of courage to raise my hands and I walked in the direction to ask him, sir, can we get ambulance for those people that are already down? And I said, great, where do we have ambulance? I put him somewhere around. I know we used to have ambulance, you know, packed around. And then they said, okay, go get ambulance. I said to him, look, I'm not going to go because even the ambulance were saying everybody go home and then as people were running to go to their homes, they were shooting at them. I said, so I wasn't going until you give me someone to cover me to get to that point where I can at least reach out for help to get ambulance and reach a grant. They gave me one of these odd leaves again to walk my house because there were other homies at the end tail. And it was the back of the mind, it could do anything. So I was ready to get out and I met some guys that I approached that called for ambulance and on getting the ambulance to that point where we had other homies by receding the road, didn't allow for access at that point. When the ambulance came around, they weren't allowed to help. They told them to go back. We couldn't really take people that were shot. We couldn't really take them out because we had been surrounded. So there were some ambulances that came for rescue but the soldiers said no and the soldiers had to take them away by themselves with their own vans and all that. The extent of the casualty is still disputed but no fewer than 15 persons are believed to have been killed. Efforts to reach the Nigerian Amni Spokesperson proved abortive as the military said it won't speak since the lake estate panel investigating the matter was still sitting. The Lakitu Plaza was set ablaze following the shooting and no fee has been collected there since October the 20th 2020 and some of the protesters wanted to remain that way and have insisted on the place being turned into a memorial venue for the killings that took place Destiny Momo for Plus TV Africa.