Last updated on October 2nd, 2025 at 09:41 pm
It was surely a premeditated attack on the unarmed protesters at Lekki Tollgate, Lagos state. After the Governor announced a curfew from 9 pm to the next 24 hrs, orders were given to remove the CCTV cameras at the Lekki Tollgate, after which the electric lights lighting up the area were switched off. These happened in the early hours of the night.
What followed was an act that could be likened to a scene from army combat movies. The Nigerian army brazenly walked up to the protesting crowd and opened fire on them. About 78 people were allegedly dead, scores injured, while an unconfirmed number of dead bodies were allegedly carted away by the soldiers to an unknown destination. The soldiers even prevented the injured from being treated as they ordered ambulances, which were called to the scene back.
The question now is who gave the orders. President Muhammadu Buhari, being the Chief Commander of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, definitely has questions to answer. Also, the Governor of Lagos State, Sanwo-Olu, as well as Bola Ahmed Tinubu, have questions to answer as this dreadful act happened in their area of authority.
Fingers also point to Tinubu because he is reportedly the owner of the Lekki Tollgate, which reportedly lost hundreds of millions of Naira since the inception of the # EndSARS campaign.
Lagos loses N234m to tollgates’ closure https://t.co/Fl7Yuy2wI6
— Punch Newspapers (@MobilePunch) October 19, 2020
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