#EndSARS: Expended bullets from Lekki tollgate match Nigerian army’s, says forensic expert

A forensics firm, Sentinel Forensic Restricted, has stated bullets expelled from firearms in the course of the #EndSARS protest at Lekki Tollgate in Lagos on October 20, 2020, had been from the Nigerian Military.

The corporate’s consultant, Joseph Funsho, disclosed this throughout an look earlier than the Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution which sat on Friday.

In line with Funsho, the stay ammunition (bullets) had been found to have been registered by the Nigerian Military.

“The stay ammunition introduced by the Nigerian Military is of the identical calibre because the cartridge casing submitted by the judicial panel,” Funsho stated.

Nevertheless, he stated the blanks didn’t match the information from the Nigerian Military’s stock.

“The clean ammunition submitted by the Nigerian Military isn’t of the identical calibre because the cartridge casings submitted by the judicial panel.

“The clean ammunition submitted by the Nigerian Military isn’t designed to be fired by rifles chambered to 7.62 x 39mm,” he defined.

The case was subsequently adjourned until Saturday (at the moment) for additional listening to.

Recall that in November 2020, Commander of the 81 Army Intelligence Brigade, Brig. Ahmed Taiwo, appeared earlier than the panel, insisting that solely clean bullets containing gunpowder had been fired on the Lekki Tollgate on October 20.

Taiwo additionally insisted that the navy solely fired into the air and never straight on the #EndSARS protesters.

He then defined that the clean bullets used weren’t able to inflicting any injury to the flesh, including that if actual bullets had been certainly fired, one bullet had the efficiency to kill three individuals at one shot.

The military had initially described reviews of its involvement within the taking pictures as faux information earlier than admitting to being current on the scene.