Tag: #EndSARS Protests

Opposition planning another #EndSARS protest – FG alleges

Aminu Imam

The Federal Government has accused the opposition of plans to sabotage the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari and overheat the polity. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, who raised the alarm at a briefing in Abuja, asked the opposition not to promote anarchy. The FG, which claimed that the opposition was trying to trigger another #EndSARS protest in the country, also faulted the attempt by the opposition to declare the National Convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC) illegal. It queried why the opposition cannot wait till the…

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#EndSARS panel report: “Why we cannot rely on Judicial panel’s report” – Lagos Govt.

Aminu Imam

..Attorney-General backs Lai Moh’d’s reaction to report The Lagos State government says it cannot rely on the report of the State’s Judicial Panel of Inquiry on police brutality in the State. The State’s Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN), who made this disclosure during a television programme yesterday, described the panel’s report as ‘unreliable and full of contradictions’. Onigbanjo was head of the four-person white paper committee appointed by the State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu. Recall that the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, had last week dismissed…

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Lagos #EndSARS report filled with errors, inconsistencies – Lai Moh’d

Aminu Imam

Information minister Lai Mohammed has said the Federal Government cannot accept the report of a judicial panel set up to investigate the attack on unarmed #EndSARS protesters at Lekki Toll gate on October 20, 2020. Recall that a judicial panel was set up by the Lagos state government to investigate the crackdown at Lekki and other claims of police brutality. The Commission’s findings were leaked last week and widely circulated online. The leaked report, which was submitted to State authorities on November 15,  contradicts the army’s version of what happened at the…

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#EndSARS: ‘Sanction Malami, Lai Moh’d, others who tried to cover up Lekki shootings’, Falana urges FG

Aminu Imam

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, (SAN), says all those who tried to cover up the shootings at the Lekki toll gate on October 20, 2020, must be sanctioned for complicity. Specifically, Falana said the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed; the Attorney-General of Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, (SAN), as well as the managers of the toll gate, the Lekki Concession Company, should be sanctioned for trying to cover up the ‘crimes against humanity committed at the toll gate’ during the #EndSARS protests last year. Recall…

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Lekki Tollgate incident was a ‘massacre’ — Lagos #EndSARS Panel

Aminu Imam

The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and Other Matters, (Lagos EndSARS Panel), has reported the Lekki Tollgate shootings of October 20, 2020, as a massacre. The panel indicted soldiers and implicated Nigeria’s security agents in the killing and forced disappearances of harmless and unarmed youths protesting at Lekki Tollgate on October 20, 2020. The Justice Doris Okuwobi-led panel made the revelation in a 309-page report submitted to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, of Lagos State, on Monday. According to the report, at least…

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#EndSARSMemorial: “Alleged massacre at Lekki tollgate is fake, CNN, Amnesty International lied” – Lai Mohammed

Aminu Imam

…Says no proof any protester was killed Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has weighed in on the recent #EndSARSMemorial in Lagos State, stating that there was no ‘massacre’ that occurred there. Mohammed, according to an issued statement, stated that no Massacre occurred at the Lekki Toll Gate last year. Recall that Soldiers reportedly shot dead several #EndSARS protesters at the toll gate on October 20, 2020. The Minister adding that it was a ‘Phantom Massacre’. Mohammed, in the lengthy statement, described such reports as false, insisting  that there is no proof…

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‘Only indoor events allowed’ — Police warn against #EndSARS protest in Lagos

Aminu Imam

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has said that the Command will deploy “legitimate means” to stop the planned protest to commemorate the first anniversary of the #EndSARS protest. Recall that in October 2020, Nigerian youths took to the streets in some parts of the country to protest against the now-disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), a unit of the Nigeria Police. To commemorate the first anniversary of the movement, youths have planned a series of activities, including protests at some strategic places across the country. According to a statement…

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#Lekki EndSARS protest: ‘Claims that soldiers killed protesters not verified’ ― US Report

Aminu Imam

The United States, (US) government has said that the claims that soldiers killed protesters at the Lekki toll gate during the #EndSARS protest could not be verified. In a report issued by the US Department of State, ‘2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Nigeria,’ released on March 30, the United States said accurate information on fatalities resulting from the shooting was not available at the end of the year. “On October 20, members of the security forces enforced curfew by firing shots into the air to disperse protesters who…

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#OccupyLekkiTollgate: “Do not block roads or flout Covid-19 rules”, Lagos govt. tells residents

Aminu Imam

The Lagos State government has urged residents of the State who want to embark on the #OccupyLekkiTollgate protest scheduled to hold on Saturday, February 13 to desist from flouting COVID-19 regulations or block roads. Recall that some Nigerians who are aggrieved over the decision of the Lagos Judicial Panel to reopen the Lekki Tollgate have concluded plans to protest the decision to reopen the toll that was shut after the October 2020 gunshot incident. The Lagos state Commissioner for Justice and State’s Attorney-General, Moyosore Onigbanjo, in a statement released on…

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“We won’t condone fresh ‘peaceful’ protest in Lagos” – Police

Aminu Imam

…‘No going back’, organisers insist The Lagos State Police Command yesterday warned against any form of protest, gathering or procession in any part of the State. The State’s Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, gave the warning during a press conference. The warning came against the backdrop of the plan to #OccupyLekkiTollGate, which came after the ruling of the Lagos Judicial Panel of Inquiry to open the Lekki Toll gate. Angered by the development, some youths scheduled Saturday, February 13, 2021, for a protest at the toll gate. But Odumosu said…

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