Lagos #EndSARS panel confirms massacre at Lekki TollGate, releases list of casualties

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, 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