A petition by Reno Omokri, a former Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan, on the change.org platform received 76,420 signatures on Friday.
The petition, which was filed on Wednesday, was directed at the International Criminal Court and comes after the Lagos #EndSARS panel indicted the Buhari administration in its report.
At over 75,471 signatures, the petition is the first of Nigerian origin to hit that number in two days.
The petition is titled, ‘A Petition to The International Criminal Court to Arraign Muhammadu Buhari for Crimes Against Humanity’.
The petition sought to have Buhari tried and imprisoned by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity believed to have happened at Lekki tollgate on October 20, 2020.
Omokri wrote in the petition: “Following the murders of these protesters, the Buhari administration denied that the incident ever occurred. They threatened those, like myself, who insisted, with proof, that this massacre happened. The government even threatened to jail people who called for those behind the murders to be brought to book.”
A close look at the report by the panel of inquiry revealed that 51 persons died from “gunshot injuries from rifled weapon,” during last year’s #EndSARS protest in Lagos State.
According to reports by The Punch. the victims’ corpses were among a total of 99 corpses picked up from various locations in the state.
The testimony of the forensic pathologist from the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Prof. John Obafunwa, was documented in the panel report, spanning through pages 75 to 109 pages of the report.
Obafunwa gave the cause of death of each of the 99 corpses he conducted autopsies on.
He gave the cause of death of 51 of them as “gunshot injuries from rifled weapon.”
However, he said the corpses presented to him were brought from various locations such as the Lekki toll gate, police stations, correctional centres, general hospitals and other parts of the state.
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Obafunwa, in his testimony, said out of the 51 corpses that died from “rifled gunshots,” eight were brought from Ikotun Police Station, three from Olosan and Denton police stations each, one from Ifako police station; 19 from Ikoyi Prisons, one from Lekki toll gate and one from Anisere in Ojota.
The pathologist added that a body each was brought from the Bariga area, Ado Road in Ajah, TVC Compound in Ketu, CMS, Ilasan in Ajah, Ikoyi, Akiode bus stop in Ojodu, Randle Close in Surulere and Mushin General Hospital, while two were brought from Lagos Island General Hospital.
