Nigeria Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has faulted the report of the panel set up to probe police brutality and the shooting at the Lekki tollgate, saying the report is full of discrepancies. ayokinews.com reports
According to the report, the “killing of unarmed protesters by soldiers on October 20, 2020 could be described in the context of a massacre”.
Lai Mohammed stated this while addressing a press conference in Abuja, where he stayed that the panel wasn’t backed with facts.
He stated that the level of discrepancies observed in the #EndSARS report, have never been seen in the history of any judicial panel set up in Nigeria.
The minister said, “Without mincing words, let me say that never in the history of any Judicial Panel in this country has its report been riddled with so many errors, inconsistencies, discrepancies, speculations, innuendoes, omissions and conclusions that are not supported by evidence.
“What is circulating in public space is simply a rehash of the unverified fake news that has been playing on social media since the incident of October 20, 2020.
“It is simply incredible that a Judicial Panel set up to investigate an incident has submitted a report laden with allegations, the same allegations it was set up to investigate in the first instance.
“Instead of sitting for all of one year, the panel could have just compiled social media ‘tales by the moonlight’ on the incident and submitted, saving taxpayers’ funds and everyone’s time.
“That report is nothing but the triumph of fake news and the intimidation of a silent majority by a vociferous lynch mob.
“The report of the panel in circulation cannot be relied upon because its authenticity is in doubt. There is absolutely nothing in the report, circulating, to change our mind that there was a massacre at the Lekki tollgate.”
