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#EndSARS Protester:how I was shot by a soldier,amputated graduate cries, demands automatic employment from Edo Government

By Wawa Reporters -

October 20, 2021

Edo youths in their hundreds yesterday gathered at the Oba Ovonramwen Square popularly called Ring Road to mark the one year anniversary of EndSARS protest where they demanded for automatic employment for the victims of the protest in the state and the implementation of the report of the judicial panel that was setup by the state government.
They also requested that all those still in detention as a result of the protest should be released unconditionally.
Security personnel drawn from the Nigerian Police, Department of State Services (DSS), Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and members of local vigilante were on ground to ensure peace while members of the Public Works Volunteers (PUWOV) controlled traffic while the peaceful march lasted.
It was a pitiable sight to see two of the victims, a fashion designer, Miracle Ailenokhoriah who has been bedridden as a result of gunshot to his right thigh and Stephen Asekhame whose left leg was amputated as a result of gunshot from soldiers in Auchi
Asekhame who is from Uhunmora said “During the protest last year on the 19th of October 2020, we in Auchi decided to hold our own peaceful protest, on that day and during the protest, soldiers ran into us and I was hit by a bullet that led to the amputation of my left leg. I was a student then but now I am a
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graduate and I am supposed to go for service next Sunday.
“I presented my case before the panel through my lawyer but till now, we have not heard anything from the panel”
On his part, Ailenokhoriah who was accompanied his mother said they were protesting in the Market Square in Ekpoma when a policemen he identified as Sergeant Ade shot him and then “himself and other policemen with him started beating men and they said if I die, I will be buried behind the police station. I was later sent to the hospital where I spent three months and now we resorted to traditional treatment but since then, I have not been able to stand up”.
Corroborating his narration, his mother Betty Odiagbe said they also sent a petition and appeared before the panel but nothing has come out of it.
She lamented that she has spent all her resources trying to take care of her son and that has made it impossible for her to pay the school fees of her children.
Speaking, one of the organizers of the memorial rally, Kola Edokpayi said “I want the state government to implement the recommendations of the panel and the federal government should make 20th of October every year as a public holiday to commemorate the EndSARS protest and give respect to the fallen heroes. These ones here who have been injured should be given automatic employment.”