#EndSARS: Majority of Lekki Toll Gate Victims Had Minor Injuries – LASG

• The HoS noted that there has been controversy about the actual number of alleged deaths at the Lekki Toll incident.

The Lagos State Head of Service, Hakeem Muri-Okunola, has told the Judicial Panel of Inquiries on Police Brutality in the state that injuries recorded in the aftermath of the Lekki shooting during the EndSARS demonstrations were predominantly fractures, machete wounds, and minor cuts.

In his testimony, he gave oral, visual, and documentary pieces of evidence in respect to the Lekki shooting incident.

“These are some of the pictures of the hospitals that we visited,” he said, pointing at a projector showing visuals of when the governor visited injured EndSARS protesters at the hospitals.

“In this Reddington hospital, these individuals were injured in that axis, some of them alluded to being injured in a stampede of running, falling over each other.

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“Predominantly, there were about 13 people injured in Reddington Hospital, Admiralty Way. The General Hospital also had 12 patients. The doctors in charge said there was one of those patients that were being moved to LASUTH, who had more severe injuries from machetes’ wounds.

“At the time we were there, most of the injuries were all in the nature of cuts, bruises from machetes’ wounds, and stampede. Nobody at the hospitals said they were shot at.”

Earlier, the lawyer representing the EndSARS protesters, Adeshina Ogunlana, argued that it is the responsibility of the state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to come forward and testify.

But the panel chairperson, Doris Okuwobi, a retired judge, said the governor is not “compellable” because he has been conferred immunity by the Constitution under section 308.

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In his testimony, Muri-Okunola noted that there has been controversy about the actual number of alleged deaths at the Lekki Toll incident. He added that since October 22, 2020, many of the people reported to have been killed, including Nollywood actress, Eniola Badmus, refuted their rumoured deaths.

He listed the names of those rumoured to have been killed to include Stephen Becky, Iraby of Oto-Auch and Joshua Ogbodo.

Others are “Anthony Chechukwu alleged to have been shot by soldiers at the Lekki tollgate has been confirmed to have died in a motorcycle accident and Lucia Adu who was claimed to have died at the Lekki Toll Gate was confirmed to have been killed in an accident involving a stationary truck on 20th October 2020.”