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#EndSARS: No Blood At Lekki Tollgate After Shooting – LASG Official
- Muri-Okunola was cross-examined by counsels to the #EndSARS protesters, Olumide Fusika and Adeshina Ogunlana on the authenticity of the video he presented
The Lagos State Head of Service, Hakeem Muri-Okunola, has said there were no bloodstains at the scene of the October 20, 2020, Lekki shooting incident when the state governor visited.
Muri-Okunola said this on Tuesday during his cross-examination at the Lagos Judicial Panel of Inquiry.
The official said when Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and his entourage – which included himself – visited the Lekki toll plaza between 12:30 a.m. and 1:30 a.m. – few hours after the shooting, they did not see any bloodstains on the ground.
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The Head of Service was earlier summoned by the panel to give evidence for the state on the controversial shooting of protesters by soldiers on the night of October 20, 2020.
Muri-Okunola was cross-examined by counsels to the #EndSARS protesters, Olumide Fusika and Adeshina Ogunlana on the authenticity of the video he presented at his previous appearance before the panel.
The HoS said the video clip presented was the way it was “because cameras were not admitted at a point during the hospital visit”, adding that the government only tendered the “relevant portion of the clip.”
He insisted that at the time the governor visited the hospital, they were informed that there were no persons with gunshot injuries.
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Fusika presented records from the hospitals that treated victims of gunshot injuries, asking the Head of Service to react to them.
“Either the hospital misled the governor or the governor misunderstood.
“We were informed by Reddington, Lekki, that the patients were not shot,” Muri-Okunola said.
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