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#EndSARS: ‘Who ordered the shootings at Lekki Toll Gate?’, Nigerians ask five months after incident

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Olaotan Falade
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Young Nigerians have again taken to their social media accounts to demand answers to the perpetrators of the ugly incident at the Lekki Toll Gate five months after.

TheNewsGuru.com, TNG recalls that protesters who were demanding an end to police brutality and good governance in the country had converged at the toll gate before being shot by armed security personnel on October 20, 2020.

Several are feared killed, while many others sustained gunshot wounds.

Following the incident, the National Economic Council (NEC) which Vice President Yemi Osinbajo chairs, had unanimously agreed to set up a judicial panel of inquiry to address the cases of victims of police brutality and compensate their families.

The panel was inaugurated by state governors across the country with members given a six-month period to function and forward its recommendations to the state governments.

However Nigerians seem not to be pleased that five months after the nation experienced what could be termed as a ‘Black Tuesday’, the authorities are yet to fish out the security operatives who shot at the innocent protesters.

In addition, they are demanding answers as to who ordered the shootings as well as the arraignment and prosecution of the military personnel.

TNG observed that as today, (Saturday, March, 2021) marks the five month remembrance of the incident, Nigerians in their thousands on social media (particularly Twitter) trended #LekkiMassacre demanding the fishing out and prosecution of those involved in the shooting of innocent protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate.

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