South-west ministers on Wednesday called on the Federal Government to probe the role of the Nigerian Army in the shooting of #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki toll gate on October 20.
Minister of Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola stated this to journalists at the end of the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council.
They also called on the Federal Government to assist the Lagos State Government in restoring some of the public facilities destroyed in the aftermath of the recent #EndSARS protests in the state.
“We also urged the Federal Government to undertake a thorough investigation into what happened in the Lekki Toll Plaza, particularly the role of the military and ensure that the outcome is made public with a view to achieving closure on the matter,” Fashola said.
“We recommended that the Federal Government re-mobilise critical organs and agencies such as the National Orientation Agency and formal educational institutions to focus on ethical re-orientation, inculcation of family values into the school curriculum.
“We recommended focus on etiquette, local reasoning, critical thinking, solution-seeking, empathy, self-respect, civic duty and human rights.”
Fashola said the ministers from the south-west also asked the Federal Government to actively seek and support the process of justice for all by ensuring that any of those apprehended and identified to be involved in the perpetration of this carnage be speedily brought to justice and fairly tried.
He added that the Minister of Youths and Sports Sunday Dare also visited the Lagos Island Hospital to empathise with seven persons who were reported to have been injured.
