SAN FRANCISCO, November 10, (THEWILL) – Nigerian Disc Jockey, Obianuju Catherine Udeh popularly known as DJ Switch, has been in contact with the Canadian legislature where she told the parliament’s sub-committee on International Human Rights about the shootings of ENDSARS protesters at the Lekki Tollgate on the night of October 20, 2020.
THEWILL recalls that the DJ and singer had feared for her life after claiming that at least 15 persons were shot and killed and their bodies were taken away by soldiers. There is however no evidence to back multiple claims of death at the tollgate till date. Only two deaths have been linked to the incident where at least 50 others sustained various degrees of wounds from bullets.
The Lagos Judicial Panel is investigating the incident in a public hearing. So far, rights groups including Amnesty International have not named and identified the dead from the Lekki shooting incident more than two weeks after the shooting but continue to claim that at least 15 persons were killed.
In her submission to the committee, DJ Switch, who used her phone to live stream the incident said: “On October 20, 2020, we had spirited Nigerians there united with one goal against police brutality against bad governance.
“What started out as a protest against police brutality with the unit called SARS, unfortunately, degenerated into something I still find hard to reconcile within my heart.
“We got information that the government wants to see me and six other people and I remember saying to them that we have no leader and if the government wanted to speak with us, he should kindly come to the toll gate and address Nigerians because we have been out for eleven days.
“As we didn’t know where the gunshots were coming from and what they are about and then the lights went off.
“I remembered the military came in first, they stopped shooting at some point and I walked up to one of them and I asked why he was shooting at us and he said he had express order from above, and I was coming too close to him and if I come too close, it would be considered an attack on him and he would have to shoot.
“It didn’t take another ten minutes, the shooting started again.
“I remember seeing seven people that have been shot down and we were telling people on my live Instagram to help us call an ambulance.”
Speaking on how she managed to escape being targeted after the international community saw her videos, she said: “I have been on the move because they have been after my life.
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“The first threat came in, I thought it was a joke, I sincerely thought it was a joke.
“Just as I was leaving, I got a phone call that I should leave the vicinity because there are military men at the hospital.
“I had to abandon my home, I moved from people’s home, and then just to get out of Nigeria.
“I am still travelling, and I am not done with my trip.”
