Tobi Adebayo
Actor and Politician, Desmond Elliot has commended the Lagos State Government for allowing the report by the Lagos Judicial Panel on the shooting of unarmed protesters at Lekki Toll Gate on October 20, 2020, to be made public.
Elliot, while speaking on TVC’s Wake Up Nigeria programme, said that the government knew the report might indict them, yet allow it to “see the light of day.”
ThisNigeria reported that the Justice Doris Okuwobi-led panel had on Monday, November 15th, submitted its report to LASG.
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.”
Reacting to the report, Elliott said “I read it and it was very heartbreaking. Heartwrenching. I knew there was a calamity, chaos. Except you are not Nigerian or you are not human. You would feel for everybody.
“I have always said something. When MKO died and the government of the day denied and denied, it took this government to come and say you know what, we have wronged you. This is the truth and they actually gave democracy day.
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“We have always said the truth comes out. There is no how you would try to hide it, the truth would come out.
“But I now looked at it from another angle. Is it possible that this government didn’t know what was going to come out? Of course, they did but the government of today, I am talking of the state government, I want to believe knew what was going to come out.”
There is going to be an official statement so let me not jump the gun because I am also in office. But the fact that it even came out and even saw the light of day…” he said
