Nollywood actress, Ruth Kadiri has advised members of the public to desist from blaming celebrities over the Tuesday, October 20, 2020, Lekki Toll Gate massacre.
In an Instagram video posted on her page, Kadiri said she has come across a lot of people who are heaping the blame on celebrities who added their voices to the protest against police brutality in Nigeria.
According to her, these set of people have been saying the celebrities should have advised the #EndSARS protesters to go home before the shooting.
While maintaining that the celebrities are humans as well, Kadiri warned critics to be fair in their criticism.
Her words: “Somebody somewhere would come out knowing fully well that families have lost their loved ones to call out Celebrities and say why did celebrities not tell people to go home?
“Who do you think we are? Superhumans with superpowers? Celebrities get robbed in case you don’t know. And nobody in 2020 ever expected that the government would shoot at us. Nobody expected it; do you think that if people had anticipated it, they would not advise everybody to go home? Let’s stop.”
The movie star, in the video, also recounted her ordeal in the hands of operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), the defunct notorious police unit.
Watch the video below:
Written by Praise Shogbade