 As Nigerian youth commemorate the first anniversary of leki toll shooting, we look at some of the unresolved issues including protesters' demands and justice for the victims of police brutality. This is plus politics and I am Mary Annapole. It's been a year since the leki toll shooting, a moment that came from the historic ensar's protest. It was triggered by the excesses of special anti robbery squad SASS, the announced disbanded police tactical unit notorious for cruelty against crime suspects. Although SASS activities included on lawful arrest, torture and extrajudicial killings, the protest became a platform to demand government's decisive actions against insecurity, corruption, economic wars, general mal-administration and the lack of opportunities for the youth. To break all of these down, we have with us journalists Imor Eddett and Jonathan Abang. Also we have our correspondent from PLOS TV Africa, Destiny. Destiny, thank you very much for joining us anymore. Jonathan, thank you all for joining us. We're starting these segments with you because you are the fourth estate of the realm and you're going to give us all the reports that you've got. From today and of course last year. But I'll start with Destiny. Destiny Momo is in-house correspondent. She was at the leki toll early this morning down to the afternoon when the police decided to tear gas those who were at the toll gate. Destiny, give us just a basic view of what you saw while you were covering the protest today. When I got to the leki toll gates, the number of protesters I saw, I was shocked because I thought that because of what happened last year, people were not going to come out as much. But the world was amazed when I got there. There were so many people and they were ready because of the pain and anguish over the last year. They had to come to, I don't know, maybe to show love to their loved ones that their lives ended at this toll gate, same time last year. So at the end of the day, the lawyer to the protesters actually came and said that it was time for them to leave. I thought he was perceiving someone's rest sort of. But after he spoke, it wasn't even up to five minutes. We started hearing shots, different sounds, gun shots, tear gas. And then I started running at that point. I knew that I had to start running. But I was shocked because just very three days ago I was interviewing some end-stars, victims, people that were there on that night of the shootout. And then I was getting so emotional when they were pouring out their hearts of what happened. But I never knew that I was going to experience something of that sort myself. So I was shocked that I was actually hearing this gunshot. Because there were a lot of security opportunities around this gunshot. I don't know what I was gunshot or tear gas, but at the end of the day, all I felt was peppery sensation in my eyes, coming straight into my tears, my nose was... I was just feeling this all around peppery sensation and I was practically passing out. I'm trying to understand why or what would have necessitated this act by the police. Because at the time that I was at that toll gate briefly, it seemed to be peaceful and calm. We saw that the protesters were in their vehicles. They were hardly on foot. People who were mostly on foot were the journalists that were covering the event. Was there any unrest of sorts? Or did you see people who looked like they were agitators or trying to disrupt the protests? Could that have been the reason why the police did what they did? I wish they were paying. I'm sure it was because of the pain of what happened last year. Earlier, before I got there, some IS were already made. But then they foresaw that the protest was going to be hijacked. Then they had to dispatch protesters using that method. That's what I perceive. People were practically running. I was running. I had to pass through above the wire into the waterways. This path was really narrow. You can see my size on the big side. I squeezed myself. I practically swam inside the sand just to save my life. I was gasping for breath. Interesting. Before this protest even happened, we of course had the CP when he tried to dissuade legosians from coming out to protest. But then we saw a man who was, I don't know if we have that video clip, was trying to speak on behalf of the police, trying to advocate, saying that one of the reasons why we're protesting is so that the police can get good welfare. As he was speaking about it, he was taken away by the same police. He was malhandled and thrown into the Black Maria, as we can see in that video. We've seen several other people. Pepper sprayed directly in their eyes. We saw one of our TV stations in Legos here, arise TV's correspondent, a lady also who was malhandled by the police. So it really makes us wonder if the police understand what's in the constitution as to protecting peaceful protesters as opposed to harassing them. OK, then like I told you, he wasn't the only one that was inside the Black Maria. I think we lost connection. Before I got there, arrests were already made. People were shouting and they were just passing. They didn't do anything and they were just passing. They didn't understand the reasons. But at the end of the process there were these shouting that people that were arrested at the same time last year, exactly a year ago, people that were just passivied, people going to different places of work or coming back when arrested and up until now, they are still inside the police cell. All right, let me go to Jonathan. Jonathan, you obviously are in the media, you write. I'm guessing that today you're going to have a few day writing from all angles and all perspective and all the information that you're getting. I do not necessarily know if there was a protest in Cross River State for answers. But from all the information that you gathered, from the Abuja protest or the Lagos protest, a bad side view of what you gathered today, does it give you a nostalgic feeling? Or is there really hope for justice to be done for the people who were killed at that toll gate? Marianne, of course, it's a feeling of deja vu because it's happening all over again and it's even troubling and mind boggling. It's been numbing to see a privileged Nigerian who occupies the position of Minister for Information because what he wrote today, honestly, I don't think I'm in the right frame of mind to call out his name. It only helps to purify media moves. It's from Lagos to Abuja and across the country. What we basically saw the police and other law enforcement agencies do is the same thing they have been doing over the years that led to the NSAS protest. Now if you follow the Human Rights Watch and of course the reports we are getting right now is in fact from January 1 up until October 1 no fewer than 130 extra judicial killings were carried out by what we call it law enforcement agencies in Nigeria. Now some people will ask, okay, where's the statistics for this? These things are not reported in the media and what have you. But if you hear a case of one today, two tomorrow, three tomorrow, you'll never get to really know that, okay, over time these things are happening. And from across Europe there was no protest but what happened was even much more silly. We have medical interns in the teaching hospital here who are old 11 months and management called the police to chase them away. You had old women who paid 7,500 a month to sweep the roads in Calabar. They have been old for over six months. They went out to protest and policemen came there. Olden policemen fired tear gas at 60, 70, 80-year-old women. So while the NSAS memorial protest did not happen across the country people would have expected. But we still saw brutality from law enforcement agency go on. And besides, you look at the so-called judicial panels of requiring to police brutality and what have you. Across the country recommendations have been made in some. 11 states have made recommendations. Some states have even concluded sitting like Crosyfa which happened since April but the recommendations have not been made public. Apart from what the privileged Nigerian who is fortunate to occupy the office of the minister for information. Like I said, I'm not going to mention this name because I don't think it's fit to be doubtful. I'll help you, Mr Lai Muhammad. Whatever his name is, I don't care right now. He's a privileged Nigerian that I do to be occupied in that office. He abused that office today and you know apart from what he said from the preliminary report from the panel of inquiry in Lagos State no one else got to know it. So clearly it supports at times of some of us that look at the end of the day these things would just, they were just what they call it's a strategy, many strategies to ensure that it take us all around and nothing positive comes out of it. I'm going to quickly toss to Imor. Imor is a broadcast journalist with the West African Democratic Radio in the class Senegal. He's a Nigerian obviously and I know how very interested in how much spotlight you have on Nigeria today reporting on the NSAS memorial. I'm sure that you have calling to really wondering what's going on in Nigeria but we saw as at yesterday when I was on my way to work I saw the police and their vans and their amart tanks by the leci toll. And some people would say this is a show of force. Some people would say it's a form of intimidation and this could have happened in other places in the country. Do you think Imor that maybe this form of intimidation has worked over time and that's why we only saw Lagos and Abuja where people really actually summoned the courage to come out and to show their respects or pay respects to the dead and those who were beaten and bashed or even those who were still in police custody. Thanks Hanford for having me. I think this may have played a role in we not seeing the crowd that we had envisaged but be as that may be we saw people still come out to show solidarity especially for those who lost their lives last year. Well, whether my colleagues or the people here know about that, yes everybody is concerned about the answers. It was a big deal for us here last year because of the massive coverage we gave to that rally and of course we did that also today. Hearing from Abuja we were able to speak with Shawwre who was barricaded by the police and we had over 30 minutes of exchanges of word and eventually they had to turn back because of a pro-ensars group, paid-ensars group like we learned from our correspondents who came and in order to avoid trouble like what happened last year they had to turn back. For me I think the Nigerian police is not learning and they have continued to fail over time. Not learning from antecedents, not learning from what had transpired in the past 365 days, not learning from what actually the protest is meant for. A very good example is the individual that was picked up earlier ago in a spot where and there are some people who are conversing for better welfare for the police that people who want a total overhaul of the police system. I mean it's for their own benefit, not just for the people that they are meant to protect, for their own benefit but for the fact that this thing has transpired for one year now I still can't understand that these guys can come out to rally or do whatever they want to do with you giving them the support instead of the harassment that we saw today, the intimidation that we saw today. I think it's appalling, especially when you have the international communities listening, watching, getting what is going on in Nigeria. It paints a very bad image for the force and I must say that the current IG isn't really doing anything and this is even when I know people don't resign easily in Nigeria but I would say this would have been that point it was a look, I am tired, I'm not in it anymore, if this reform is not working so let it be. For me it should put in the pen and move away and let them get somebody who can make sure that the reform works. Now part of what we asked you earlier this morning was that if any of the reform, the five demands last year has been met and you said none. Yes we understand that states have been putting up panel of enquiries, some victims have been compensated but is that enough to really drive on the point of the protesters? So for me I think a whole lot seems to be done at. Well I want to say thank you, Imor Edet is a broadcast journalist with the West African Democratic Radio in Dakar, Senegal. Jonathan is of the cross river watch he is a print journalist and Destiny is in house correspondent chair plus TV Africa. Thank you gentlemen, we have a long list of people to talk with. Thank you. We'll take a quick break now and when we return more on the ancestors remembrance and weather. Justice will take its course. Stay with us.