#EndSARS: No One Died At Lekki Toll-Gate, Army Insists


The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, says  nobody was killed during the #EndSARS protest at Lekki toll gate in Lagos State.

The Army chief, who spoke at the decoration of 39 newly promoted Major Generals, on Friday in Abuja, insisted that there was no corpse during the protest at Lekki toll gate.

He stressed that those claiming protesters were killed were seeing double.

Buratai said: “I am glad that we held the Spiritual Warfare Seminar on Wednesday and most of the decorated Generals today are graduates of the Spiritual Warfare Seminar.

“I must say that the Spiritual Warfare Seminar we had last time, helped us during the last #EndSARS protest to the extent that there was no single corpse, but some persons were seeing double at Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos State.”

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Soldiers had invaded the Lekki toll-gate, the major protest ground, for the #EndSARS demonstration, on October 20 and allegedly opened fire on peaceful and unarmed protesters leaving, a yet to be ascertained number of persons dead and many serious injured.

The military has, however, denied using live rounds on the protesters, saying blank bullets were used in dispersing the the demonstrators.

Popular Nigerian Disc Jockey, Obianuju Catherine Udeh, better known as DJ Switch, had alleged that soldiers shot and killed some of the people protesting at Lekki toll gate.

The Army, however, admitted that soldiers were at the venue of the protest but did not kill anybody.