#EndSARS: Morayo Afolabi-Brown recounts narrow escape during 2020 TVC station attack

TV Host and Media personality Morayo Afolabi-Brown has recounted how she and her colleagues narrowly escaped death when hoodlums attacked and set fire to the old Television Continental building in Lagos during the 2020 #EndSARS protests.

Afolabi-Brown shared the experience on her Morayo TV show uploaded on Tuesday while reflecting on her time as host of TVC’s Your View, a morning programme, following her resignation from TVC Communications.

She recalled how she had encouraged her colleagues to speak freely about the protests during a live broadcast a day following the Lekki massacre, despite the risks involved.

“I said, guys, tomorrow might be our very last day ever to do the interview. I want you to give it your all. You say it as you feel it. You speak the pulse of the people,” she recounted.

According to her, four female presenters were scheduled for the programme, but two could not attend physically because they were on the Island. She and her colleague, Tope, were on the mainland and went to the studio, while the others joined online.

Afolabi-Brown said the team spoke about the issues surrounding the protests before hoodlums stormed the building while the programme was still live.

“And we spoke truth to power on that day, the very next morning. And it was while we were speaking that thugs came out to burn down the building. Myself, Tope, the crew, we were all in the building,” she said.