#EndSARS: Lagos Govt Pays for Forensic Examination of Lekki Toll Gate

The Lagos State Government has paid a huge sum of money to forensic experts in a bid to uncover the truth about the shooting of #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate which took place on the 20th of October 2020

The Chairman of the Lagos State Judicial Panel on Restitution for victims of SARS and police brutality, Justice Doris Okuwobi, made this known on Tuesday while ruling on an application filed by the Lekki Concession Company.

The LCC is seeking permission to have access to the toll plaza for the purpose of evaluating the damage done at the toll gate in order to commence the necessary repairs.

Justice Okuwobi also disclosed that the holidays delayed forensic experts from commencing work earlier. She explained that the holidays which made it difficult for the experts to get access to relevant documents and exhibits which have previously been tendered before the panel adding that the forensic examination is expected to be completed within the next 21 days.

“Forensic analysis will clear a lot of issues in the incident of Oct 20, 2020, and a huge sum has been paid by the Lagos State Government for it. The desire is that the panel will unearth the truth of what happened,” Justice Okuwobi said.

“The application by the LCC for permission to have access to the toll gate must, therefore, await the outcome of the forensic examination.”

7 Comments

  1. I don’t know why you people love, wasting our money for unnecessary things. CNN have done this work for free, yet you people are bent on wasting our money. Let’s what they will find out if it will be different from CNNs own.

  2. Paid huge amount of money to do what, are you telling us that if you (government) are guilty, what would you do to yourself?

  3. The government just like wasting the tax payers money, the money that they ought to use for the progress of the country, using it for unnecessary things.

  4. No problem we will be waiting for the outcome and I hope those in charge won’t compromise the outcome of the findings.

  5. Another means of siphone money from government pulse, our government and leaders are just behaving as alpha and Omega of everything in the country and no one to checkmate them. This is bad ooo.

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