Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and a member of the Justice Doris Okuwobi-led Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and other matters, revealed that the leaked Lagos State Government memo regarding the mass burial of 103 victims of the October 2020 EndSARS protest is just one of several shocking revelations to come.
During an interview broadcasted on Channels Television on Saturday, July 29, Adegboruwa emphasized that it is common knowledge in Nigeria that there were casualties on the night of October 20, 2020, when soldiers stormed the Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos, a focal point where youths had gathered to protest police brutality and extrajudicial killings.
He said;
“The leaked memo from the Ministry of Health of Lagos State is one of the many surprises that people will still see in the course of time so long as the government has not come to terms with the reality of the events of October 20th, 2020.
“May be the challenge would be the quantum or the number of such fatalities. But to blanketly assert that there was no death or there was no blood spilt in any way at all as a result in particular of gunshots by members of the Nigerian Army is to do a disservice to the souls of those people who are affected.”
