Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has pointed fingers at the Nigerian Army for being responsible for the shooting of protesters at Lekki toll gate on October 20.
Mr Sanwo -Olu spoke while featuring on the ‘Connect the World with Becky Anderson programme’ on CNN on Monday.
“From the footage that we could see, because there were cameras at that facility; it seems to me that they would be men in military uniform. That’s what the footage shows,” the governor said.
He added that no blood stains were seen at the Lekki toll plaza when it was inspected, but that two persons had been reported dead.
“Two dead bodies, that is what we have seen from all the morgues, that’s what we have seen going to hospitals, that’s what we have seen as record.
“What has happened is that there have been so many footages that were seen, that people have shown, but we have not seen bodies; we have not seen relatives; we have not seen anybody truly coming out to say ‘I am a father or a mother to someone and I cannot find that person’.
“Nobody has turned up. I have been to the ground. There is no blood anywhere there,” he said.
Sanwo-Olu said he would do everything within his power to ensure that those found culpable were punished, although pointed out he was not the commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
The governor said he was in support of the #EndSARS movement against police brutality and had on occasions joined the youth in pressing for police reforms.
