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Calling Lekki Incident Massacre Is Debatable – Datti-Baba Ahmed, Peter Obi’s Running Mate
Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, the running mate of Labour Party Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has raised concerns over the description of the shooting incident at the Lekki Toll Gate on October 20, 2020, as a ‘massacre’. The Labour Party Vice Presidential candidate expressed this view during a popular political Television program, Politics Today, on Thursday, October, […]
Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, the running mate of Labour Party Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has raised concerns over the description of the shooting incident at the Lekki Toll Gate on October 20, 2020, as a ‘massacre’.
The Labour Party Vice Presidential candidate expressed this view during a popular political Television program, Politics Today, on Thursday, October, 20, 2022.
He stated that calling the incident a massacre might be debatable, but there is a clear violation of human rights by the soldiers.
The Lekki shooting
KOKO TV reports that, yesterday makes it two years that soldiers invaded the Lekki Toll-gate plaza in the dead of the night and allegedly opened fire at the #EndSARS protesters who had peacefully gathered to demand an end to police brutality in the country.
Massacre or no massacre
There have been claims by many Nigerians and also international organisations that some protesters were killed on that night but the Military have argued that its men only fired blank bullets at the protesters and that couldn’t have resulted in any fatality.
Government denial
Also, both the Lagos state and Federal Government have repeatedly stated that nobody was killed at the toll plaza and challenged anyone whose relatives may have been killed in the shooting to step forward.
Compensation
The Lagos State government opened a panel of inquiry, and duly compensated the victims and their families.
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