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[UPDATED] Lekki Shootings: Our Cameras Stopped Working By 8pm – LCC Tells Panel

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4 years ago

Nov 3, 2020.

Lagos Panel Expects Forensic Report On Lekki Tollgate In Four Days

The Lekki Concession Company (LCC), operators of the Lekki toll gate, has presented video footage recorded by its surveillance camera on the night of October 20, 2020, when soldiers allegedly opened fire on #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki toll gate.

The Managing Director of LCC, Abayomi Omomuwa, submitted the video footage on Tuesday to the Judicial Panel of Inquiry set up by the Lagos State Government to probe the Lekki shootings as well as complaints of human rights abuses against members of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).

Giving the video footage to the panel, Omomuwa said, “I can confirm that inside here is the video footage that our surveillance camera was able to record for the 20th of October.”

Omomuwa, who submitted footage of the day afterwards said that the cameras that were removed before the shooting were plate number recognition cameras “early in the day”.

According to him, the other surveillance camera, a pan–tilt–zoom camera (PTZ camera) also exists and is still intact.

“We never, ever tampered with the surveillance camera until about 8pm, when it was tampered with and stopped recording,” Omomuwa added.

The LCC MD also disclosed they have three surveillance cameras: at the Lekki toll gate, one at Ikoyi, and another at Chevron. The cameras are linked via a network, controlled from Chevron.

Omomuwa noted they did not activate audio recording, as the cameras are used for traffic not security.

The panel had last week paid an unscheduled visit to the Lekki toll gate as well as the military hospital in the Ikoyi area of Lagos.
An official of the hospital, Brigadier General AI Taiwo, who took panel members round the facility, said morgue has been under renovation since October 2019.