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Lekki Toll-Gate Shootings: Falana Explain Why Families Of Victims Are Scared To Speak Out

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Lekki Toll-Gate Shootings: Falana Explain Why Families Of Victims Are Scared To Speak Out. The Lekki tollgate shootings have been condemned by both local and international organisations, civil societies, and individuals.

Many of those who supports the government with the excuse that no casualties were recorded during the Lekki shootings.

A human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has debunked those claims and stated that the victim’s families are scared to speak out because they “understand the environment under which we operate”.



He made this statement during an ‘#EndSARS Zoom Meeting Global’ held on Wednesday 28th October 2020.

At the meeting, the Human Right Lawyer made some revelations regarding the Nigerian Army

He said, “Nobody should believe the military because it has a history of lies, fraud and deception.

“Just in December 2015, the same Chief of Army Staff, General (Tukur) Buratai claimed that there was a traffic jam in Zaria and the big man wanted to move and because of that traffic, he got soldiers from the first division in Kaduna to mow down Shiites.

“And what was the explanation? That the Shiites wanted to assassinate the Chief of Army Staff…and about six or seven persons died.

“But in the Commission of Inquiry set up by the Kaduna State Government, we were told that indeed 347 Nigerians were killed by the military. No autopsy, no postmortem, nothing was done. Their bodies were taken away in the dead of the night and given a mass burial.

And people will ask you, if anybody lost his child in Lekki, why have they not come up? Who has come up in the case of Zaria? Because you must understand the environment under which we operate.

“By the way, some of those injured in Lekki had to forcefully discharge themselves because they were told in the hospital that they were going to be held liable for the riot in the town. And so, everybody had to move.

“But as of today, the governor of Lagos State has admitted that two people lost their lives. The circumstances would have to be explained later but those two were among those shot by the soldiers.”

“We are involved in the investigation and we are going to unravel the entire mystery surrounding the attack in Lagos,” he insisted.

These are allegations leveled against the Nigerian Army and government and just like the case of Shiit, we hope some justices will be delivered to the EndSARS victims (Heroes)