Following the damning details on the report of the Lagos State regarding the mass killing at Lekki during the EndSARS protest last year, the House of Representatives minority caucus has urged the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed “to resign immediately or be fired by President Muhammadu Buhari”.
Previously, the minister claimed that no life was lost among the protestors, referring his statement to a “massacre without bodies”.
“The Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives, after a thorough review of the report of the Lagos State EndSARS judicial panel, holds that the attempt by officials of the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government to cover up the now confirmed bloody massacre of Nigerians youths by security forces at the Lekki Tollgate suggests a high level state-backed conspiracy against Nigerians,” the statement said, signed by the minority leader, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu on Thursday.
“The confirmation by the Lagos Panel that there was indeed a massacre at the Lekki Tollgate during the 2020 EndSARS protests in Lagos and that APC government-controlled security forces carted away bodies and mopped up evidence, places a huge burden on Federal Government which had vehemently denied any killings.”
Mr Elumelu also blasted the minister’s blatant lie to the public, adding that the “Minority caucus is therefore apprehensive” as to what “furtive motive” that made him “insist that there were no killings at Lekki Tollgate” ahead of the judicial panel.
