Legal luminary, Mr. Femi Falana, has chided lawyers to the government, who he believed are trying to dispute the #EndSARS panel report, saying “they are crying more than the bereaved”.
Mr. Falana in a lengthy op-ed, on Monday evening, said lawyers to the Lagos State Government at the panel, Jelili Owonikoko and Kayode Enitan, both senior advocates, had consistently spoken against the report, seeking to dwarf its relevance on the basis of alleged inaccuracies.
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Falana claimed the facts the lawyers were trying to dispute had long been acknowledged by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu himself.
“The Lekki Concession Company Limited, an agency of the Lagos State Government which later disabled the CCTV camera at the Lekki Toll Gate which captured the tragic incident of the night in question, had issued a press statement to condemn the wanton killing of the protesters.
“In any case, the controversy surrounding the findings of the Commission is centred around the number of the protesters who were killed and not that the killings did not occur.
“But it is on record that a few hours after the incident, Governor Sanwo-Olu had disclosed that two people were killed at the Lekki Toll Gate.
“The disclosure was made after the governor had visited several injured people who were then receiving treatment in some hospitals,” Mr. Falana said.