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Fifteen persons who claimed to have sustained injuries during the shooting incident at Lekki tollgate in Lagos on October 20, 2020 stormed the sitting of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Enquiry and Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and Other Matters to protest their alleged ordeal on Friday.
Led by their lawyer, Adesina Ogunlana, the victims demanding justice said they had come to debunk claims that nobody died or was shot at on the night of October 20 at Lekki Toll Gate. This is just as the lawyer narrated their experiences on the day #EndSARS protesters were forcefully dispersed.
Ogunlana said what forced him to bring the victims to the court was because of the suit filed against the panel by the police.
“It beholds in us to present the fact we know to the world. There’s been a deliberate effort by the agent of the government, specifically Lagos state government to run #EndSARS protesters down, either by inducement or by quack scene and not allow them come out to the panel,” he said.
“There are frantic efforts, I can say authoritatively, even over the weekend to prevent this action (protest) by their agents and their lawyers
“They got to know that we’re coming here (court of arbitration) to present and do this demonstration to show the world that actually people were shot at, that actually people were severely injured and that people actually died.
“There are contacts made to prevent this particular action and we refused it and we are saying you cannot compromise this level of atrocity. People were shot and attacked by security agencies including the Nigeria military and the police.
“This is the truth and if not that this matter was adjourned till December 11, 2020, we might not have done this… in the magnanimity of the panel, they considered that it is good to adjourn and it created a lull.
“There was fear on our part and reasonable fear too. There’s a deliberate intention to scrap this panel and armstrong it but way of illegal process.
“We were proved right when a suit came up two days ago and that the police themselves are asking that these panels to stop.
“We are in this struggle not only for the people that died, or the people suffering now but for the future of our children. Government must not continue with the culture of reckless impunity.”
However, after Mohammed Adamu, inspector-general of police publicly expressed his complains about it, the suit was withdrawn.
A spokesperson of the victims said: “We have people with amputated legs; we have people with brain surgery in this van; we have dozens of them that are yet to be discharged. This is from Lekki tollgate massacre 2020. We want justice. We don’t want to be silenced; we don’t want to be marginalised even in our own country.”
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