Former Nigeria presidential aspirant, Adamu Garba, on Tuesday demanded justice for victims of the October 20, 2020 shootings at Lekki Tollgate in Lagos.
Garba says he find the outcome of the Lagos judicial panel of inquiry “shocking”.
“The outcome of the investigative panel on the Lekki shootings during the #EndSARS was shocking. Live bullets rained on national anthem singing innocent youth? Justice must be done! Justice must be done!! Very shocking,” Garba wrote on his known Facebook page.
POLITICS NIGERIA recalls that a judicial panel probing allegations of police brutality in Lagos State on Monday submitted its findings to the state government.
The panel submitted its findings to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. One of the reports was on claims of police brutality while the other was on the shooting in the Lekki area of Lagos State during last year’s EndSARS protests.
The Nigerian army denied shooting live rounds at protesters, telling the judicial panel that only blanks were used. However, the report of the panel indicted the army, as well as the police, and attributes the killing of unarmed protesters at Lekki to them.
The #EndSARS protest movement started as a campaign to end the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), a police unit accused of extortion, torture, and extrajudicial killings. But the protests grew into a wider contestation against bad governance.
The governor’s office did not reveal the contents of the report, but justice Doris Okuwobi, who headed the panel, said that it considered 186 petitions out of the 252 it received.
Governor Sanwo-Olu vowed a “proper response” to the panel’s recommendations, adding that a “white paper” would be published within the next two weeks.
“This process will help us start the very difficult process of proper reconciliation, restitution, bringing together of anyone… affected,” Sanwo-Olu had said.
