Lekki Shootings: Amnesty International Releases Evidence Linking Military, NBA Insists On Probe
The global rights group, Amnesty International,(AI) has collated and released a timeline of the Killing of #EndSARS protesters by soldiers at the Lekki tollgate, Lagos on October 20 2020. The AI said its crisis response experts investigated and verified social media videos and photographs that confirmed the security forces were present at the Lekki tollgate when the shootings occurred. The Nigerian Bar Association,(NBA) and an activist, Raphael Adebayo,in their separate reactions to Amnesty’s statement, reiterated their calls for the probe of Lekki shootings. The NBA further advised government to stop denying the incident and admit its error.
The NBA had at its National Executive Committee meeting held two days after the incident demanded an investigation to reveal the identities of the persons who gave the order for the attack, the soldiers who carried out the shooting as well as the slain and missing victims of the attack. The NBA, through its Publicity Secretary said the continuously changing claims of relevant authorities concerning the incident had further shown that there was the need for a thorough probe into the incident by the Federal Government.