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Endsars Protest : Lagos Says 103 Victims For Mass Burial Not From Lekki Shooting Incident

...says bodies picked up from Fagba, Isolo, Ikorodu, Orile, Ikeja, other areas after protests

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Lagos Finally Admits Killing Of 103 Persons In 2020 EndSars Protests
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Lagos – The Lagos State Government has said that the 103 victims of Endsars to be given mass burial are not from the shooting incident by soldiers at the Lekki tollgate on 20/10/20 .

Dr Olusegun Ogboye, Permanent Secretary , Lagos State Ministry of Health stated this in a statement late Sunday.

Ogboye who was reacting to news making rounds on plan by the state government to give 103 victims mass burial at a cost of N61.2million insisted that nobody died during the Lekki shooting incident.

According to Ogboye, the 103 bodies to be given mass burial were picked
up by the Lagos State Environmental Health Unit (SEHMU) in the aftermath of #EndSARS violence and community clashes at Fagba, Ketu, Ikorodu, Orile, Ajegunle, Abule-Egba, Ikeja, Ojota, Ekoro, Ogba, Isolo and Ajah areas of Lagos State.

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“There was also a jailbreak at Ikoyi Prison. The 103 casualties mentioned in the document were from these incidents and NOT from Lekki Toll-gate as being alleged.

“For the avoidance of doubt, no body was retrieved from the Lekki Toll Gate incident,” Ogboye explained.

The full text of the statement ; “LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT

MINISTRY OF HEALTH

PRESS STATEMENT

RE: MASS BURIAL OF ENDSARS VICTIMS (MISCHIEF MAKERS AT WORK).

“The attention of the Lagos State Government has been drawn to some social media publications about a purported mass burial plan for casualties of the 2020 #EndSARS incident.

“Peddlers of the news are deliberately misinterpreting and sensationalizing a letter from the Lagos State Government Public Procurement Agency titled: Letter of No Objection – Mass Burial for the 103, the Year 2020 ENDSARS victims, to misinform the public, stir public sentiment and cause public disaffection against the Lagos State Government.

“It is public knowledge that the year 2020 #EndSARS crisis that snowballed into violence in many parts of Lagos recorded casualties in different areas of the State and NOT from the Lekki Toll Gate as being inferred in the mischievous publications.

“For the records, the Lagos State Environmental Health Unit (SEHMU) picked up bodies in the aftermath of #EndSARS violence and community clashes at Fagba, Ketu, Ikorodu, Orile, Ajegunle, Abule-Egba, Ikeja, Ojota, Ekoro, Ogba, Isolo and Ajah areas of Lagos State.

“There was also a jailbreak at Ikoyi Prison. The 103 casualties mentioned in the document were from these incidents and NOT from Lekki Toll-gate as being alleged.

“For the avoidance of doubt, no body was retrieved from the Lekki Toll Gate incident.

“Contrary to disingenuous narrative weaved around the recently approved mass burial, the #EndSARs Panel subpoenaed the Lagos State chief pathologist to produce full records of unclaimed bodies of dead deposited with state central morgue during the days immediately preceding and following the event at Lekki tollgate on 20/10/20 .

“The list with their autopsies of provable cause and circumstances of death were duly submitted and testified to before the panel .

“This subpoena was at the request of lawyers who represented #EndSARS protesters and the chief pathologist complied .

“There was not a single finding in the report or ensuing white paper attributing the death of any named citizen listed in the autopsy to the Lekki incident.

“In the aftermath of the #EndSARS violence, the office of the Chief Coroner invited members of the public through public adverts and announcement (November 18,2020, Punch and November 19,2020 THISDAY) who had lost loved ones or whose relatives had been declared missing between 19th and 27th October 2020 from various clashes as mentioned above, to contact the department of Pathology and Forensic Medicine of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) to help with identification of these casualties deposited in State-owned morgues. Relatives were to undergo DNA tests for identification purposes.

“It is important to state categorically that nobody responded to claim any of the bodies.

“However, after almost three years, the bodies remain unclaimed, adding to the congestion of the morgues.

“This spurred the need to decongest the morgues – a procedure that follows very careful medical and legal guidelines in the event that a relative may still turn up to claim a lost relative years after the incident.

“The Government, therefore, appeals to social media rumour mongers to please allow the hapless families of the unclaimed loved ones a deserved closure.

Dr Olusegun Ogboye
Permanent Secretary
Ministry of Health
July 23, 2023.”
(vitalnewsngr.com)

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