Tobi Adebayo
A CNN reporter, Katie Polgase has tackled the Nigerian Government for attacking its evidence on the shooting of unarmed protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate on October 20, 2020.
Polgase was reacting to the report of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses, which indicted the military and the police.
The Justice Doris Okuwobi-led panel had on Monday, November 15th, submitted its report to the Lagos State Government.
In the 309-page document titled “Report of Lekki Incident Investigation Of 20th October 2020”, the panel revealed that at least 48 protesters were either “shot dead, injured with bullet wounds or assaulted by soldiers.”
“The atrocious maiming and killing of unarmed, helpless and unresisting protesters, while sitting on the floor and waving their Nigerian flags, while singing the National Anthem can be equated to a massacre in context.
“It was alleged and corroborated that the soldiers had their vans parked at the Lekki tollgate and removed as many bodies and corpses of the fallen protesters, which they took away with their vans,” part of the report read.
Reacting via Twitter, Polgase said that it vindicated CNN’s reporting on the killings, which was referenced 37 times in the report of the judicial panel.
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See her tweets below:
