A Nigerian judicial panel submitted a report detailing police killings of peaceful protesters in October 2020 at the Lekki toll gate in Lagos.
A Nigerian judicial panel submitted a report to Lagos' governor on the October 2020 shootings of peaceful protesters against police brutality at the Lekki toll gate in Lagos.
"At the Lekki toll gate, officers of the Nigerian army shot, injured and killed unarmed, helpless and defenseless protesters, without provocation or justification, while they were waving the Nigerian flag and singing the national anthem and the manner of assault and killing could in context be described as a massacre," says the report.
In a report submitted to Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on November 15, a Nigerian judicial panel has found that soldiers of the Nigerian army"shot, injured and killed" protesters during the October 2020 demonstrations against police brutality in Lagos. Above, people hold banners as they demonstrate on the street to protest against police brutality, in Lagos, Nigeria, on October 20, 2020.
In Lagos, Nigeria's most populous city with more than 14 million people, soldiers were sent to the Lekki toll gate plaza where hundreds of protesters had gathered. After dark, hours after a 24-hour curfew was declared by the Lagos government, soldiers"shot blank and live bullets directly and pointedly into the midst of the protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate, with the deliberate intention to assault, maim and kill," according to the report.
Most states in Nigeria set up judicial panels to investigate allegations of police brutality, but the Lagos government expanded the scope of its commission to probe the shooting incident at the Lekki toll gate and to award compensation to those who filed charges.
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