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#EndSARS: Lekki massacre fake, CNN lied – Lai Mohammed
#EndSARS: Lekki bloodbath pretend, CNN lied – Lai Mohammed. Nigeria’s Minister of Data and Tradition, Lai Mohammed, has described the Lekki toll gate bloodbath of October final 12 months as false.
He acknowledged this in a press release on Wednesday tagged: “Phantom Bloodbath at Lekki tollgate” to mark the one-year anniversary of the protest.
Mohammed stated the narrative by CNN that Nigerian offerediers massacred protesters on the Lekki tollgate in Lagos State on October 20, 2020 was ‘pretend information’.
Lekki bloodbath pretend
The minister additionally accused Amnesty Worldwide of speculating pretend information concerning the EndSARS bloodbath at Lekki Tollgate.
He: “At present marks the primary anniversary of the phantom bloodbath at Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos, which was the end result of an in any other case peaceable protest that was later hijacked by hoodlums. At earlier press conferences, I had referred to as the reported bloodbath on the toll gate the primary bloodbath on this planet with out blood or our bodies.
“One 12 months later, and regardless of ample alternatives for the households of these allegedly killed and people alleging a bloodbath to current proof, there was none: No our bodies, no households, no convincing proof, nothing. The place are the households of those that had been reportedly killed on the toll gate? Did they present up on the Judicial Panel of Inquiry? If not, why?
“Sadly, the champions of a bloodbath on the Lekki Toll Gate, together with Amnesty Worldwide and CNN, have continued to shamelessly maintain on to their unproven stand. Recall, gents, that after bandying totally different figures, Amnesty Worldwide lastly settled at about 12 individuals killed.
“On its half, CNN went from 38 individuals killed to 2 to only one, after a supposed international unique even when the community had no reporter on floor on the Lekki Toll Gate on Oct. twentieth, 2020.
“On Monday, the Judicial Panel of Inquiry that was arrange by the Lagos State Authorities after the EndSARS protest wrapped up its sitting. In the course of the sitting, CNN was summoned however it by no means confirmed up, thus lacking a terrific alternative to show its allegation of bloodbath on the toll gate.”
Additionally, Amnesty Worldwide had a golden alternative to persuade the world, however it somewhat opted for issuing meaningless press releases.
“In its newest try to understand at straws and redeem no matter is left of its battered credibility on this concern, CNN has continued with its baseless report that troopers shot at protesters.”
