MC Oluomo wondered why the corpses of those killed were never found, he also queried why their family members cannot be identified
By Kehinde Okeowo
The chairman of Lagos State Parks and Garages management committee, Musiliu Akinsanya, better known as MC Oluomo, has alleged the killing of EndSARS protesters at Lekki Tollgate in 2020 was a political gimmick aimed at undermining the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu.
He made this known on Sunday, October 9, during the rally he organised in Lagos to support the APC chieftain and the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
According to Punch, Oluomo said the alleged killing of protesters was a ploy by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and Labour Party (LP) flagbearer, Peter Obi to give Tinubu, their political adversary a bad name.
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He wondered why the corpses of those said to have been killed by soldiers at the toll gate were never found, he also queried why their family members could not be found.
MC Oluomo said, “Where are the bodies and where are they buried? Do they have relatives in Nigeria? Has Nigeria bribed the mothers of the deceased protesters?
“Why are their siblings not searching for them, even on social media? Or is Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu a Chief of Army Staff or President who will order the killing of protesters at the (Lekki) Tollgate?”
“They’re lying to us, they want to undermine the Yorubas, everyone should come out. It is a political game. It was Atiku and Obi that conspired to do all those things then.”
In October 2020, thousands of youths trooped out to the streets to protest extra-judicial killing by the police, particularly by the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad.
Some of the protesters at Lekki Tollgate were allegedly shot by soldiers on October 20, 2020, and a Judicial Panel was set up by the state government to investigate petitions on police brutality in the state.
The panel, after sitting, listed 10 fatalities arising from the shooting by the Nigerian Military at the Lekki tollgate. It also recommended the redeployment and prosecution of the Divisional Police Officer of Maroko Police Station, for the arbitrary shooting and killing of protesters.
The report had since become a subject of controversy, especially with the government rejecting the panel report for inconsistencies.
