The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, has on Thursday; approached the Federal High Court in Lagos for an injunction backing and protecting the #EndSARS protesters.

In the lawsuit which has President Muhammadu Buhari, the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu; Commissioner of Police, Lagos, Hakeem Odumosu; and the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami; as defendants, SERAP prays the Court for an order protecting the protesters from harassment.

The protesters had come under attacks both by policemen and suspected state-sponsored thugs.

SERAP is urging the court to issue an injunction restraining Buhari and the other respondents sending their agents to “harass, arrest, detain or in any other manner infringing on the fundamental rights of peaceful protesters in the EndSARS/SARSMustEnd / ReformPolice protests or any other peaceful protest in Nigeria.”