The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and other matters, has released the detail of some casualties of Lekki Toll Gate shooting of October 20, 2020, during the ENDSARS protest.
The Justice Doris Okuwobi-led panel, which submitted its 309-page report to Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Monday, November 15, 2021, listed 48 casualties from the Lekki shooting, noted that 11 were confirmed dead, four missing and presumed dead, while others suffered gunshot injury, severe assault among others.
The panel said the shooting of the protesters can be equated to a ‘massacre’ in context.
“The atrocious maiming and killing of unarmed, helpless and unresisting protesters, while sitting on the floor and waving their Nigerian flags, while singing the National Anthem can be equated to a ‘massacre’ in context,” the panel said in its findings.
This is contrary to claims by both the Nigerian Government and security agencies that no one was killed in the attack on protesters at the Lekki Tollgate and the specific claim of the Nigerian Army that soldiers deployed to the scene shot into the air and did not use live bullets.
LIST OF SOME CASUALTIES OF LEKKI TOLL GATE SHOOTING OF OCTOBER 20, 2020
NAMES OF THOSE CONFIRMED KILLED
VICTORIA SUNDAY IBANGA
ABUTA SOLOMON
JIDE
OLALEKAN ABIDEEN ASHAFA
OLAMILEKAN AJASA
KOLADE SALAMI
FOLORUNSHO OLABISI
KOLADE SALAMI
KENECHUKWU UGOH
NATHANIEL SOLOMON
NAMES OF THOSE MISSING AND PRESUMED DEAD
ABIODUN ADESANYA
IFEANYI NICHOLAS EJI
TOLA
WISDOM
NAMES OF THOSE INJURED
NICHOLAS OKPE
UKALA PATRICK YIDE
OLALEKAN FALEYE
MABEL NNAJI
JOSHUA SAMUEL
LUCKY PHILEMON
AJOKU JAPPET
OPE KEHINDE
CHARLES CHINEDU OZIOMA
DAMILOLA ADEDAYO
ANDREW UGOCHUKWU
I0ITYOM SAMUEL
ISAAC AMEDE
FELIX NANDIP
EMMANUEL JOHN
SIMON ABU RAYMOND
MOSES ADAMS
SAVIOR OSIKE
MOSES OYI
YINUSA ADAMU
JOHN HARRISON
SOLOMON SAMUEL AGIH
THEOPHILUS DAVID
AVWEROGUO TRUST
OLAMIDE DAUDA
SAMUEL ASHOLA
ASUE ROLAND THOMAS
EMMANUEL OGBONNA
JOSHUA JAMES
PAUL FEMI
OLALEKAN SANUSI
IFEANYI AGBEZIE
NNATAH STANLEY CHIMEZIE
AYODEJI BECKLEY
ONILEOWO LEGEND
