#EndSARS Lekki Tollgate massacre: Shocking findings ~ Maroko Police DPO personally shot protester [Pt. 4]
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The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and Other Matters (Lagos EndSARS Panel) has released some shocking discoveries from the Lekki Tollgate shootings of October 20, 2020 as a massacre.
The panel indicted Nigerian soldiers and other security agents in the killing, forced disappearances and injuring of tens of harmless and unarmed youths protesting police brutality at the Lekki Tollgate on October 20, 2020.
It also disclosed how the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Maroko Divisional Police Station personally shot someone.
Below is part four of the 309-page report submitted to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State on Monday by the Justice Doris Okuwobi-led panel tagged “LASG JPI Report Of The Lekki Incident Investigation Of 20th October 2020:
8. Was the Police present at the Lekki Toll Gate on the 20th October 2020?
A. ACP Oludotun Odubona who represented the CP Lagos and is the Second in Command Operations of the Lagos State Police Command stated that SARS and other Tactical Units were disbanded on 11th October 2020. He stated that there were no police officers at the Lekki Toll Gate on the 20th and 21st of October 2020.
B. That from the 14th of October 2020 the Commissioner of Police withdrew all police officers from the Toll Gate, and there was nothing to warrant the use of live rounds on the 20th or 21st of October, 2020, by any Police officer.
Similarly, the DPO of Maroko Divisional Police Station CSP Raji Ganiyu stated that no Policeman was dispatched to the Lekki Toll Gate from the 14th of October 2020. That to his knowledge as a DPO, the 20th of October 2020 was not an extraordinary day.
He also stated that on the 20th of October 2020 at 8:30pm, people came to the station throwing bottles and attempting to burn down the station. That with the assistance of the community, they spoke to them and they left. That he was not armed but his men were.
He was not aware if anything happened at the Lekki Toll Gate till he saw it on Social Media the next day. That he remained at his station from the 14th of October, 2020 and even on the 20th of October, 2020 and he received no report of any incident at the Lekki Toll Gate.
C. Several EndSARS protesters including Miss Serah Ibrahim and Onilewo Legend testified of their direct one-on-one encounter with police officers at the Lekki Toll Gate between the night of the 20th of October, 2020, and the morning hours of the 21st of October 2020.
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D. In Serah Ibrahim’s documentary video evidence (Exhibit A labelled AHTJ2821 from about the 14th to the 38th Seconds) there is evidence that police officers were at the Toll Gate on the 20th to the 21st of October.
It was also clear from the voices that the officers were preventing the protesters who they were in confrontation with from recording.
E. The premium Times Interview presented in Exhibit A tendered by Serah Ibrahim under OOSA2155 showed persons who were interviewed and gave copious account that the police shot in ubiquitous fashion at the Lekki Toll Gate between the 20th and 21st October, 2020.
Those interviewed (Serah Ibrahim) also personally pointed out that the DPO of Maroko Divisional Police Station personally shot someone.
F. All the above clearly contradicts the testimony of both representatives of the Nigeria Police Force. From the above the Panel finds that the Police was at the Lekki Toll gate on the 20th and 21st of October 2020 and that it is clear that the Nigerian Police were aware that gunshots were being fired at the Toll Gate based upon the testimony of witnesses and evidence before the panel.
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