The Lagos panel on #EndSARS has indicted the military for killing peaceful protesters on the night of October 20, 2020, deflating the position of information minister, Lai Mohamned, that it is a massacre without bodies.
On Twitter, #EndSARS and LekkiMassacre have taken the first two top positions on Nigerian trend, with thousands of tweets in the first few hours after the report was presented to Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
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Former chairman of National Human Rights Commision (NHRC), tweeting with his handle, @ChidiOdinkalu, said: ” On 25 Oct, 2020, @StNicholas_ng labelled as “false” my information about the killing of Olabisi Folorunso in LekkiMassacre, feeding cover up. Today, @followlasg
#EndSARs Judicial Commission has reported. Look at their report: @StNicholas_ng lied. I don’t use that word lightly,” he said.
@Dreffiongjohn said: “This #EndSARS panel finish work here! They even have their names and status well spelt out! Where are all those that said nobody died at the lekki tollgate??? Make thunder faya all of una!!!!”
@EstherIjewere also said! “The Panel of Judicial Inquiry on #EndSARS found out exactly what we have been saying. I’m happy they added names of the victims who died at the toll gate. #lekkimassacre2020 #Lekkitollgate”
@Chxta added: “Dear #Nigeria, Never forget, those who DENIED that their fellow human beings were killed in the LekkiMassacre.”
Part of the report read, ”The evidence before the panel shows that after the Nigerian Army left, Nigeria Police Force followed up with the killing of the protesters, shooting directly at fleeing protesters into the shanties and the Lagoon at the Lekki Phase 1 Foreshore, close to the Lekki Toll Gate, floating corpse and one shot close to Serah Ibrahim.
“Several unidentified bodies were removed by security agencies and LASEHMU (Lagos State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit) and deposited at various hospital mortuaries in Lagos State.
“Three trucks with brushes underneath were brought to the Lekki Toll Gate in the morning of October 21, 2020 to clean up the scene of bloodstains and other evidence.
“The testimony and report of Professor John Obafunwa, a forensic pathologist of Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, showed that three corpses were deposited at the Mainland Hospital, Yaba Hospital, all from the Lekki Toll Gate and the autopsy conducted thereon revealed death from bleeding caused by penetrating objects or rifled weapon.
“The panel finds that the fact of lack of identity of some of the other 96 corpses on the list supplied by Professor Obafunwa would not obliterate the fact that some of them could have come from the Lekki Toll Gate Incident of October 20, 2020, or that some other unidentified corpses may have been removed by their families or the military, as claimed by the #EndSARS protesters, far and beyond the list tendered by Professor Obafunwa.”
