The Management of the Lekki Concession Company (LCC) on Friday told the Lagos State Judicial Judicial Panel of Inquiry for Restitution for Victims of SARS and related abuses and Other Matters that the footage of the Oct. 20 shootings of the #EndSARS protesters by the Nigerian Army is available.
Gbolahan Agboluwaje, the Head of the Legal Department of LCC, said LCC received a summon from the panel on Wednesday, Oct. 28, to appear before it and was also ordered to present the Oct. 20 footage, an investigation report and any other document.
“We have the footage. We do not have an investigation report because we know that investigations are ongoing and we have not been able to provide any document,” he said.
He, however, noted that the LCC was prepared to air the footage but said because the notice of summon was too short, they only brought what they were able to lay their hands on.
“We had a very short notice and we brought what we were able to lay our hands on,” he said.
Agboluwaje then requested for a short adjournment.
Responding, the Chairman of the nine-man panel, Justice Doris Okuwobi (Rtd), granted Agboluwaje’s request for a short adjournment.
Justice Okuwobi noted that the programme of the day for the panel was to visit the locus (scene of the Lekki Shooting) and to have proceedings based on their findings from the visit.
“We were initially to take note of what we see at the locus and today’s proceedings was to be subsequent to what we see there.
“The panel will arise very shortly to visit the locus. The panel noted that it is required of the witness to have a counsel of his choice. We will not take the proceedings of the visit of the locus until then,” she said.
According to NAN, the panel had briefly risen to visit and inspect the Lekki Toll Plaza, the scene of the Oct. 20 shooting.
The panel is expected to reconvene to hear other petitions after its return from the visit to the tollgate. (NAN)
