One of the many celebrities, DJ Switch, who identified and stood with protesters during the ongoing #Endsars protests in Nigeria, has apprised a Canadian committee of the infamous Lekki shootings.

DJ Switch, whose real name is Obianuju Udeh, was reportedly granted asylum by the Canadian government following death threats in Nigeria.

Reliving the shootings, she gave an eyewitness account of what transpired on Oct. 20 to the Sub-committee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development.

According to her, the military swooped on protesters, made a three-line formation, fired live bullets into the air killing about 15 unarmed people peacefully protesting the abolition of a police department called Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).

She recalls streaming the shooting live and at a stage the battery of her phone ran down, adding that at a point when the shootings stopped, she confronted one of the soldiers who told her they were ‘’acting on orders from above’’.

‘’On October 20, 2020, we had spirited Nigerians there united with one goal against police brutality and against bad governance.

‘’What started out as a protest against police brutality with the unit called SARS unfortunately degenerated into something I still find hard to reconcile within my heart.

‘’We got information that the government wants to see me and six other people and I remember saying to them that we have no leader and if the government wanted to speak with us, he should kindly come to the toll gate and address Nigerians because we have been out for 11 days,’’ she said.

She says during the melee, the lights were suddenly turned off.

‘’I remembered the military came in first, they stopped shooting at some point and I walked up to one of them and I asked why he was shooting at us and he said he had express order from above and I was coming too close to him and if I come too close, it would be considered an attack on him and he would have to shoot.

‘’It didn’t take another ten minutes, the shooting started again. I remember seeing seven people that have been shot, down and we were telling people on my live Instagram to help us call an ambulance.’’

In the aftermath of the protests, a journalist has been thrown into prison, two other journalists died, several are injured and are at different stages of recuperation.

About 13 bank accounts of sponsors of the protests have been frozen while the account owners were labelled terrorists.

Solidarity protests have broken out all over the World including in America, UK, Germany, Russia and four provinces in Canada.