One of the counsels representing some #EndSARS protesters, Mr Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika (SAN), has said that his legal team is considering tendering an investigative report by the Cable News Network (CNN) to the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry probing the alleged shootings and killing of some #EndSARS protesters at the Lagos Lekki Toll Gate by Men of the Nigerian Army on October 20.
The CNN in its investigative report titled “How a bloody night of bullets and brutality quashed a young protest movement in Nigeria”, implicated and accused the Nigerian Army for the extrajudicial killing of #EndSARS peaceful demonstrators.
Meanwhile, the Nigerian Army had consistently maintained that it troops which engaged the #EndSARS protesters only fired blank ammunition into the air, a statement which the CNN condemned and affirmed that live bullets were fired on some of the protesters which led to their deaths in the operation.
While the Government of Nigeria has also condemned the CNN investigative report, Olumide-Fusika, who is representing some protesters before the Lagos probe panel, has said that some of his clients claimed to have suffered some gunshot injuries at the Toll Gate scene.
Lawyer Olumide-Fusika had while cross examining the Nigerian Army witness before the probe panel, Brigadier General Ahmed Taiwo, questioned the Army decision to only tender a report published by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on the Toll Gate incident to the panel.
Brigadier General Taiwo had in response said that it was only the BBC report that was discovered.
