Lekki Massacre: Fashola Tampered With Evidence At Lekki-Gate, Says Judicial Panel

The Lagos state judicial panel has described the inspection of the Lekki toll-gate by Babajide Sanwo-Olu and other top government officials as “illegal tampering of evidence”

You will recall that minister of works and housing, Babatunde Fashola, had discovered a mystery camera during Sunday’s top government officials  visit to the Lekki toll gate where soldiers killed unarmed nine unarmed protesters last week Tuesday.

But reacting to the development on Monday, one of the members of the Lagos judicial panel on police brutality, Ebunolu Adegboruwa, said it was illegal for anyone else to visit the scene with out the permission of the panel

In statement issued on Monday, Adegboruwa, a senior advocate, said “Since the Panel has been vested with jurisdiction over the Lekki Toll Plaza, I verily believe that it is illegal for anyone else to conduct any visit to the said Lekki Toll Plaza in the absence of and without the authority and consent of the Panel.”

Sanwo-Olu’s delegation to the toll gate included Oyo and Ekiti governors Seyi Makinde and Kayode Fayemi, and works minister Babatunde Fashola.

In TV footage of the inspection, Mr. Fashola appears to discover a hand-held camera at the site even though the state’s waste management agency cleaned up the place last week.

Fashola is seen picking up the device with a handkerchief.

Adegboruwa says the Lagos judicial panel will treat the delegation’s inspection of the site as contempt, and that the panel will summon  individuals it perceives to have obstructed justice.

The Justice Doris Okuwobi-led panel begins sitting today at the Lagos Court of Arbitration Centre, Lekki.