Popular Nigerian Disc Jockey, DJ Switch, who recorded the live stream video of the Lekki tollgate shooting during the #EndSARS protests, has been granted asylum in Canada.
DJ Switch who alleged her life was being threatened by authorities, once tweeted she does not want to die, as soldiers are searching for her, to eliminate her.
No report was given on how she left the country or when, but the DJ revealed, she is already in asylum hearings with the sub-committee on International Development of the Canadian Parliament, about the shootings at the Lekki Tollgate on October 20, 2020.
DJ Switch, who appeared in a video over the weekend, was seen speaking to the Canadian Parliament, on the Lekki tollgate shooting.
According to her, she counted seven persons were shot in her presence, adding that one of the soldiers threatened to shoot her.
She said: “On October 20, 2020, we had spirited Nigerians there united with one goal against police brutality 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 eleven days.
“As we didn’t know where the gunshots were coming from and what they are about and then the lights went 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.”
Speaking on her escape after her videos stirred the international community into action, the DJ Switch said: “I have been on the move because they have been after my life.
“The first threat came in, I thought it was a joke, I sincerely thought it was a joke.
“Just as I was leaving, I got a phone call that I should leave the vicinity because there are military men at the hospital.
