The Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN) has maintained that the report on the Lekki shooting was unreliable which has raised mixed reactions that has continued to trail the Lagos State government White Paper on the report of the #EndSARS Judicial Panel of Inquiry (JPI).
But, legal luminary Prof. Paul Ananaba (SAN) dismissed the controversy over the report as unnecessary, saying that government should be held accountable for the White Paper.
He said: “I am not interested in controversy. People have died, people have been wounded, even if it is one person in Nigeria who died in the Lekki Toll Gate protest, it is worth something, it is worth attention of everybody. I am interested in making sure that we don’t have a second occurrence of that event. Government should implement the white paper and let us move on.”
“I am in support of peace. Peace is important at any point. Because of peace, even things that have not been resolved can be looked into. Having conflict in the society, seriously, I don’t support it. I think we should hold government accountable and make sure that they remain within the peace circle, he added.
“Assuredly, nothing can ever cover the truth. What happened at the Lekki Toll Gate on October 20, 2020, was already in the public domain, those who received the bullets knew what happened and the doctors that treated them knew what happened. The panel reports
