Amnesty International has asked the Lagos State Government to halt the planned mass burial of 103 EndSARS victims.
Politics Nigeria earlier reported that the Lagos State Government the victims to be buried are not from the controversial Lekki Tollgate shooting but different location within the state.
Meanwhile, Amnesty’s director of information, Isa Sanusi, demanded an independent investigation into the matter, adding that an autopsy be done on the victim’s corpses.
He also asked that the identities of those to be buried be revealled by the Lagos state government.
“The Nigerian authorities must urgently halt their plans to carry out a secret mass burial of #EndSARS victims and instead carry out a thorough and independent investigation into the killings and ensure that those suspected to be responsible are brought to justice in fair trials,” Sanusi said in the statement.
“They must also carry out transparent coroner inquests and autopsies on the 103 #EndSARS victims and publish their identities and the circumstances of their deaths.
“It is appalling that the Lagos state government has not even mentioned that it has held the bodies of 103 #EndSARS victims in its custody since October 2020.”
Sanusi stressed that all those detained due to their role in the EndSARS protests must be released immediately.
