One of the #EndSARS protesters, Olamilekan Sanusi who witnessed and survived the shootings by Nigerian military men at Lekki Toll Gate, Lagos has testified that he counted no fewer than 10 dead persons during the massacre that occurred last year.
Counsel for the Lagos State Government on the #EndSARS Panel, Abiodun Owonikoko had questioned the content of the report, saying there were discrepancies in it. In Sanusi’s testimony, however, he told the Panel that the protest ground was calm until the invasion of military men who shot at and killed peaceful protesters.
He said after the shooting, a military man identified as F. Omata made futile attempts to appeal to them, but that the protesters were not keen to listen because of the shooting. “I could hear a woman saying ‘you must not die, my son’. I was lying beside her wearing blue, she was holding her son’s hand saying you must not die. I was hearing a sound like the wind. I tried to open my eyes but I could not. I later found myself in a hospital with a drip.”
He continued, “The mobile Policemen at Marina and those people outside were shooting at people passing in the morning.”“Since we heard they were going to finish us, we sneaked through the back of the Governor’s house back to Lekki. I was resting every two minutes because I could not walk properly. “We trekked from Marina to Lekki before I met some friends who took me to where I laid my head. That was where a doctor recommended the doctor that was taking care of me at home,” he said.
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