EndSARS corpses: Fear prevented relatives from claiming victims, says lawyer
Former Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, Ikeja branch, and lead counsel for #EndSARS protesters/petitioners at the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry into the Lekki tollgate incident of October 20, 2020, Adesina Ogunlana, talks to EMMANUEL OJO about the controversy surrounding the planned burial of 103 bodies of “#EndSARS victims” by the Lagos State Government
But the Lagos State Government has consistently debunked the claim that anyone died at the Lekki tollgate protest. Why do you disagree with its position on the matter? The panel which I represented didn’t show that 103 people died. I am talking of the number now and before that panel, all the reports of dead people that were recorded were not limited to the Lekki area. To that extent, the government was partly right but for the government to now say that the panel did not refer to anybody in Lekki and that nobody died there, that is their monumental lie.
Remember that the panel sat and came out with a report emphatically that there was a massacre at the tollgate. It was only the Lagos State Government that came out with a white or yellow paper, trying to rubbish the work of the panel, which it had set up itself. The panel comprised nine people, who were virtually all lawyers, maybe just one or two were not. Those lawyers are not kids in the profession.
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