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#EndSARS: Protesters Bring Back The Lost Okoroshi In Lekki Protest

By Guardian Nigeria

13 October 2020   |   2:02 pm

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The protesters at Lekki have brought back the "lost Okoroshi" to the protest ground this morning in the fight against the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, F-SARS, brutality. On Tuesday, while requesting for the end of police brutality, a masquerade was sighted dancing with a placard saying "Stop killing our dreamers, EndSARS Now". Okoroshi, Okoroshi Ojo…

#EndSARS: Protesters Brings Back The Lost Okoroshi In Lekki Protest

The protesters at Lekki have brought back the “lost Okoroshi” to the protest ground this morning in the fight against the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, F-SARS, brutality.

On Tuesday, while requesting for the end of police brutality, a masquerade was sighted dancing with a placard saying “Stop killing our dreamers, EndSARS Now”.

Okoroshi, Okoroshi Ojo and Okoroshi Oma represent the dualities of good/evil, female/male, white clouds/dark rain clouds, beauty/distortion, delicate features/large misshapen features, village/wilderness, order/chaos, clarity/mystery in Igbo tradition.

However, “The lost Okoroshi” is a movie by Abba Makama and it focuses on the semi-comic tale of spiritual possession.

Symbolically, the Okoroshi is meant to protect the weak and fight against injustice. This is what the coming out of the masked dancer for the Lekki protest signify.

People were happy to see this development, it shows a cultural unification in the fight against police and also a knowledge of the traditional system by the millenials.

The lost okoroshi has been found 🙌🏾 https://t.co/bTMGiQfiUS

— Jemima (@JemimaOsunde) October 13, 2020

The gods are outside too… na everybody the thing dey affect o 😂😂😂#sarsmustend #SarsMustGo #BuhariHasBeenABadBoy https://t.co/LfoR9JBAkA

— #EndSARS 💔😭 (@Ogteamie) October 13, 2020

Na Masquerade wey follow us protest we go set nyash make e flog#SarsMustGoNow https://t.co/qvWJ4eWvlR

— Prin$e of Enugu皇子 says #SARSMUSTEND (@EmmyleeEM) October 13, 2020

Even the gods are against sars… This is proof enough naaa#SARSMUSTEND #ENDPOLICEBRUTALITYNOW https://t.co/z9hxYl9cD5

— israel kayode (@Iseaykay) October 13, 2020

Even the ancestors are outside but you’re saying it doesn’t concern you abi? #SARSMUSTENDNOW https://t.co/9dcuR6MfH3

— 𝓚𝓪𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓶𝓪𝔀𝓸 (@boboskylarme) October 13, 2020

~ The lost okoroshi has been found – https://t.co/7nn529xFX0

— diji aderogba. (@directordiji) October 13, 2020

Another ancestral dimension #SARAMUSTEND https://t.co/ypb2US80M0

— Gobex (@gobex) October 13, 2020