Lekki Toll Gate Shooting: Why Malami Should Resign – HURIWA

• EKOHOTBLOG, 16TH NOVEMBER, 2020
• The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, has charged the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, to apologise and resign if he has any honour left.

HURIWA made the call in response to Malami’s comment that gunmen who attacked End SARS protesters at Lekki toll gate Lagos State were not soldiers.

The group said the AGF should either apologise or resign since the Nigerian Army has confirmed that soldiers were deployed to Lekki toll gate.

HURIWA disclosed this in a statement signed by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko.

The group said the show of shame by the Federal Attorney General and minister of justice Abubakar Malami over this Lekki Toll Gate Lagos issue is intolerable and unacceptable.

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Despite Malami’s claim, the 81 Division of the Nigerian Army had admitted that soldiers were deployed to Lekki toll gate.

Brig.-Gen. Ahmed Taiwo, Commander of the 81 Division, Military Intelligence Brigade, Victoria Island, Lagos State while appearing before the Lagos Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution, yesterday, insisted that soldiers fired blank ammunition and not live bullets at the protesters.

He also insisted that contrary to reports, the soldiers did not kill any protester at Lekki toll gate.