Lagos Endsars Panel Report Reveals Army Shot.
In Lagos where the State judicial panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and other matters has submitted its report to the state government.
The panel was set up as part of recommendations put forward during the EndSARS protests last year.
The panel submitted its report to the state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu at the Government House, Ikeja.
The Justice Doris Okuwobi-led panel, in its 309-page report, said at least nine persons were confirmed dead at the Lekki toll plaza on the night soldiers stormed there to disperse #EndSARS protesters on October 20, 2020.
The panel listed 48 names as casualties of the October 2020 Lekki tollgate shooting.
The detail, titled, ‘Report of Lekki Incident Investigation of 20th October 2020’, seen by Inspiration FM said at least 48 protesters were either shot dead, injured with bullet wounds or assaulted by soldiers.
The panel also noted that 96 other corpses were presented by a forensic pathologist at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Professor John Obafunwa.
According to the report, the protesters were allegedly killed by policemen and soldiers.
The team also said the killing of unarmed protesters at the tollgate could be described in the context of a “massacre”.
A statement by one of the members of the panel, Ebun Olu-Adegboruwa said the Panel made far-reaching recommendations concerning the major actors that were found culpable, in order to achieve true healing and reconciliation.
He also threatened to make public the “full contents” of the Lekki shooting incident submitted by the body to the state government if the promises to make it public are not fulfilled.
Youths had stormed the streets in some states in the country last year to demand that SARS, a police unit notorious for extrajudicial killings, human rights abuse and violence should be disbanded.
The protesters also demanded that police personnel found responsible for abusing their position should be brought to justice.
Lagos Endsars Panel Report Reveals Army Shot.
