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Nigeria a dictatorship with democratic face – DJ Switch
BY NICHOLAS ABE
The Cable News Network (CNN) continues to intensify pressure on the Nigerian government over the use of soldiers from the Nigerian Army to quail the recent #EndSARS peaceful protest across the country, especially in Lagos.
Only yesterday, Wednesday, the international news station threw the Nigerian government and its military into confusion with an investigative report on the shootings and alleged killings of peaceful protesters by the Nigerian Army, at the Lekki Toll Gate, Lagos, in what is currently trending with the hashtag, #LekkiGenocide.
Twenty-four hours later, Thursday, CNN broadcast an interview with Obianuju Catherine Udeh, more popularly known as DJ Switch, whose live Instagram feeds from the Lekki Toll Gate end of the #EndSARS protest kept Nigerians informed of events on the protest ground.
DJ Switch told CNN anchor Becky Anderson that Nigeria was a dictatorship with democratic face.
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“To be honest Becky, at this point I do not hold what the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria says to heart.
“Nigeria is a dictatorship with a democratic face, and I think that is primarily to please the international community.
“It is our right to protest anything that we see and change that we demand.
“Nigerian government has used force from the beginning, starting with trying to infiltrate the peaceful protest with thugs; that didn’t work out and then they moved to bringing the military in,” she said, speaking from hiding.
Below is a link tweeted by CNN on the interview.
“Nigeria is a dictatorship with a democratic face.”
Nigerian artist and activist @dj_switchaholic speaks to @BeckyCNN from hiding about the horrors she witnessed at an #EndSARS protest, and why she can’t trust the Nigerian government. | @CNNConnect pic.twitter.com/jJ5qnrPjMq
— CNN Africa (@CNNAfrica) November 19, 2020