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#LekkiMassacre: Falana Reveals Why Victims’ Families Are Afraid to Speak Out

Tare Magbei
Tare Magbei
Published: June 14, 2025
Last updated: June 14, 2025
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#LekkiMassacre: Falana Reveals Why Victims' Families Are Afraid to Speak Out | Daily Report Nigeria
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Revered Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has stated that families of victims of peaceful #EndSARS protesters killed by Nigerian soldiers at the Lekki toll gate are afraid to speak out.

Falana who spoke on Wednesday at an ‘#EndSARS Zoom Meeting Global’ hosted by Sahara Reporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore, explained that their silence is simply because they “understand the environment under which we operate”.

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Falana also urged Nigerians and the international community not to believe the explanations offered by the Nigerian Army on the Lekki shootings.

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Recall that the Nigerian Army had initially denied being present at the venue of the shooting and even labelled live footages as being doctored.

However, the military admitted on October 27, that its operatives were at the Lekki toll gate on Tuesday, October 20, 2020, 7 days after the infamous massacre

Upon admission of its presence at the venue of the shooting, the military claimed they were invited by the Lagos State Government and noted it only acted within the rules of engagement.

However, Falana insisted the army has “a history of lies, fraud and deception” as he made reference to the Shiites incident of December 2015.

The Senior Advocate of Nigeria said, “Nobody should believe the military because it has a history of lies, fraud and deception.

“Just in December 2015, the same Chief of Army Staff, General (Tukur) Buratai claimed that there was a traffic jam in Zaria and the big man wanted to move and because of that traffic, he got soldiers from the first division in Kaduna to mow down Shiites.

“And what was the explanation? That the Shiites wanted to assassinate the Chief of Army Staff…and about six or seven persons died.

“But in the Commission of Inquiry set up by the Kaduna State Government, we were told that indeed 347 Nigerians were killed by the military. No autopsy, no postmortem, nothing was done. Their bodies were taken away in the dead of the night and given a mass burial.

“And people will ask you, if anybody lost his child in Lekki, why have they not come up? Who has come up in the case of Zaria? Because you must understand the environment under which we operate.

“By the way, some of those injured in Lekki had to forcefully discharge themselves because they were told in the hospital that they were going to be held liable for the riot in town. And so, everybody had to move.

“But as of today, the governor of Lagos State has admitted that two people lost their lives. The circumstances would have to be explained later but those two were among those shot by the soldiers.”

Falana also stressed that the military has no business to enforce curfew under the Nigerian laws.

“We are involved in the investigation and we are going to unravel the entire mystery surrounding the attack in Lagos,” he insisted.

The infamous #LekkiMassacre attracted condemnations from local and global civil rights personalities and organisations like Amnesty International, which claimed the military operatives gunned down at least 10 unarmed protesters at the Lekki toll gate.

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