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#EndSARS Panel Report Created Doubts, Gaps, Says Lagos Attorney-General

Gabriel Ntoka by Gabriel Ntoka
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Moyosore Onigbanjo, the Attorney-general of Lagos State, has said the report submitted by the state Judicial Panel of Inquiry into the Lekki Toll Gate shooting of October 20202 “created doubts and gaps”.

The Lagos State government on Tuesday released its White Paper of the panel’s report, which was submitted to Babajde Sanwo-Olu, the state governor, on 15 November.

The panel had in its report stated that nine persons were killed during the #EndSARS protest at the toll gate on October 20, 2020, adding that the action of the Nigerian Army and the Nigeria Police Force on the night could be equated to a massacre.

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However, the state government dismissed the findings of the panel, describing the report of deaths as “assumptions and speculations”.

Providing more details on the state’s verdict, Onigbanjo, who headed a four-man committee to prepare the White Paper, said in an interview on Wednesday that the panel provided many “contradictions” in the report, thereby making it unreliable.

According to him, the panel’s findings were not supported by evidence and since there were doubts, the case would have to be decided in favour of the accused.

“The panel said they found the report of Professor Obafunwa who deducted autopsy on all the bodies picked up around Lagos during the protest, not just in Lekki; that they found his evidence credible and that there was no evidence to the contrary. Professor Obafunwa said that of all the bodies he conducted autopsies on, three came from Lekki and out of those, only one had gunshot injury. And the panel then said, ‘we believe you and accept your evidence because there is nothing to the contrary.’ It means what Professor Obafunwa said outweighs every other piece of evidence before the panel,” Onigbanjo said in an interview on Arise TV.

“Then the panel then goes on to say there were nine dead. If you look at that page where the deads from the Lekki tollgate were listed, they did not explain how they arrived at that conclusion, the names, who shot them and when they were shot. So that’s a contradiction because what Professor Obafunwa said is different from the conclusion they are now reaching. And there were so many others.

“They also said one Nathanial Solomon died at Lekki tollgate. It also turns out that Nathaniel Solomon was a witness before them and handed a petition in respect of his late brother.

“Those contradictions and many more made that particular finding unreliable. Because for a finding that somebody died at a scene to be acceptable, there must be no doubt. What the panel did create doubts; it created gaps in their story of nine deaths. And once there are doubts, the doubts are usually resolved in favour of the person you’re accusing to have murdered or killed those people — because of this, that particular finding was rejected.”

Onigbanjo said the two reports from the panels will be released to the public soon to allow the people to make their own judgments from the findings.

Tags: #EndSARSLagos stateLagos State Judicial Panel of InquiryLagos State Judicial Panel ReportLekki Toll Gate ShootingMoyosore Onigbanjo
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