Lagos State Government claims that the 103 #EndSARS victims for whom a mass burial is planned are not victims of the Lekki toll gate shooting.
It was previously reported that a letter from the Lagos State Public Procurement Agency confirmed the state government’s decision to conduct a mass burial for 103 #EndSARS victims nearly three years after their deaths.
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The facts of the fatalities that occurred during the 2020 #EndSARS protests in Lagos have sparked debate, particularly the occurrence on October 20, 2020, at the Lekki toll gate, where soldiers and police officers killed an unspecified number of peaceful protesters.
“While the Lagos State Government would not have dignified the mischievous elements peddling such news with a response, we consider it appropriate to set the records straight and draw the attention of well-meaning citizens to the antics of some unscrupulous elements who are hell-bent on disrupting the peace and tranquillity of Lagos state with distorted news and half-truth.
“It is public knowledge that the year 2020 #EndSARS crisis, which snowballed into violence in many parts of Lagos, recorded casualties in different areas of the State and NOT from the Lekki Toll Gate, as mischievous publications inferred.”
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“For the record, the Lagos State Environmental Health Unit (SEHMU) collected bodies in the aftermath of #EndSARS violence and community clashes in the Lagos State areas of Faga, Ketu, Ikorodu, Orile, Ajegunle, Abule-Egba, Ikeja, Ojota, Ekoro, Ogba, Isolo, and Ajah, as well as a jailbreak at Ikoyi Prison.”
Ogboye continued, “In the aftermath of the #EndSARS violence, the office of the Chief Coroner invited members of the public who had lost loved ones or whose relatives had been declared missing between the 19th and 27th of October 2020 from various clashes as mentioned above, to contact the department of Pathology and Forensic Medicine of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) to assist in the identification of those who had been declared missing.”
