The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says the report by the Lagos judicial panel of inquiry to probe police brutality and the shooting at the Lekki tollgate is riddled with discrepancies.
The report said, among others, that the “killing of unarmed protesters by soldiers on October 20, 2020, could be described in the context of a massacre”.
The panel led by a retired judge, Doris Okuwobi, submitted the reports to Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on November 15.
But the minister, while addressing journalists in Abuja on Tuesday said the findings of the panel were not backed up with facts.
“Without mincing words, never in the history of any judicial panel in Nigeria has a report been so riddled with discrepancies and conclusions that are not backed up [with facts],” he said.
“It was a phantom massacre. The report in circulation cannot be relied upon. The leakage of an unsigned report to the public is not enough.
“There is absolutely nothing in the report, circulating, to change our mind that there was a massacre at the Lekki tollgate.”
