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FG says EndSARS Lekki Tollgate Shootings is “massacre without bodies”

The Federal Government on Thursday insisted that there was no massacre when soldiers dispersed #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki Tollgate, Lagos on October 20, 2020 as Nigerians and the international community are being made to believe.

Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, joined by heads of parastatals under his Ministry, said at a press conference in Abuja that reports of massacre is only attributable to those he described as purveyors of fake news.

Mohammed said what was alleged to have happened could either be “social media massacre” or at best “massacre without bodies.”

The Minister said: “While we await the judicial panel in Lagos to unravel what transpired at the Lekki Toll Gate, what we can say, based on testimonies available in the public space, is that the world may have just witnessed, for the very first time ever, a massacre without bodies!

“Some have tagged it ‘social media massacre.’ The testimony of Brigadier General Ahmed Ibrahim Taiwo of the Nigerian Army before the panel was compelling, and I am sure many of you have listened to or watched it.”

Relying heavily on General Taiwo’s testimony, Mohammed insisted that soldiers at Lekki Toll Gate fired blank ammunition into the air and that could not have done any damage to the flesh, not to talk of killing anyone.

He challenged those who alleged massacre at the toll gate to appear before the judicial panel to the world or simply admit that they goofed.

The Minister said, “Sadly, the purveyors of fake news and disinformation succeeded in deceiving the world that indeed there was mass killing in Lekki, even when, till date, not a single body has been produced and not a single family or relative has come out to say their child or ward was killed at Lekki.

“More surprising and irresponsible is the fact that some people have been calling for sanctions against Nigeria or against Nigerian government officials on the basis of a hoax.

“This is one of the dangers of fake news and disinformation. Once fake news is out, many run with it, without looking back, even when the truth is
eventually revealed.

“We, therefore, want to use this opportunity to ask those who have alleged massacre at the Lekki Toll Gate to go to the judicial panel to present their evidence(s) to the world or simply admit that they have goofed.”

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