Two years after, families who lost breadwinners during #EndSARS protest struggle for survival in Enugu
Story By Arinze Chijioke
Chinedu Solomon was only six when his father died in 2004.
After his father’s death, his mother, Esther Obi, did menial jobs for survival. Together, they lived in the Abakpa area of Enugu State, south-eastern Nigeria. When he was 16, his mother sent him to train as an automotive technician for four years. He was her first child, and the hope was that after training, he would become his own boss and care for her and his three siblings, a common aspiration of parents in traditional Igbo society.
Read the full sad story of Solomon Chinedu, the hope of his family whose life was cut short after Solomon was shot dead by a police officer during the #EndSars protests on 20 October 2020 on his way to work.
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Almost two years after and no compensation from the government.
Support for this report was provided by the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID Africa), and it is made possible through funding support from The Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR)
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