Panel says Nigerian troops massacred #EndSARS protesters at Lekki Toll Gate

A judicial panel set up by the Lagos State Government in the wake of the #EndSARS protest that grounded the state in October 2020 said in a report it submitted to the government on Monday said that Nigerian troops massacred protesters.

Nigerian troops on the evening of October 20, 2020, arrived at the Lekki toll plaza to disperse unarmed protesters, largely young people, who were protesting against police brutality. Nigerian Army said it was invited to the location by the state.

But what followed, though disputed by the government, was described by witnesses and right organisations as a “massacre”

Amnesty International insisted that its investigations showed that officials of the Nigerian Army and police killed at least 12 people that evening at two locations – Lekki and Alausa – the same day.