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Soccer-Nigeria's Ogu calls on players to boycott games amid unrest

Published 23/10/2020, 08:27
Updated 23/10/2020, 08:30
© Reuters.

© Reuters.

Oct 23 (Reuters) - Nigeria midfielder John Ogu has called
for a boycott of their upcoming games to protest police
brutality amid ongoing violence in the commercial capital Lagos.
Nigerians have been demonstrating nationwide for weeks
against a police unit, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS),
that rights groups had for years accused of extortion,
harassment, torture and murders. The unit was disbanded on Oct. 11 but the protests have
persisted and rights group Amnesty International said soldiers
and police killed at least 12 people in Lekki and Alausa.
The army denied soldiers were at the site of the shooting.
"There are games coming up and if we boycott these games I'm
sure they'll know we've made a statement ... I believe most of
my colleagues understand where I'm coming from," Ogu told the
BBC.
"What's the point in representing the country if this is
what the politicians, the people we're representing, can do to
us? I feel like this is the best thing to do now until they get
back to their senses and listen to us.
"We want a good government, the police brutality to stop, we
want the SARS to stop, we want the killings to stop, we want
good laws, we want job opportunities."


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