The Chairman of Lagos Parks and Garages Management, Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, has insisted that nobody was killed during the EndSARS protest at Lekki tollgate.

He stated this while addressing supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC), during their ‘five-million-man march’ in support of the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in Lagos on Sunday.

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Addressing the mammoth crowd MC Oluomo noted that the allegations were rather a political game orchestrated by Tinubu’s rival presidential candidates, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi.

He said: “Where are the bodies and where are they buried? Do they have relatives in Nigeria? Has Nigeria bribed the mothers of the deceased protesters? Why are their siblings not searching for them, even on social media? Or is Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu a Chief of Army Staff or President who will order the killing of protesters at the Lekki tollgate?

“They’re lying to us, they want to undermine the Yorubas, everyone should come out. It is a political game. It was Atiku and Obi that conspired [/b]to do all those things then.”

[b]Background

The Lekki shooting occurred on October 20, 2020 around 7p.m. when soldiers reportedly opened fire on unarmed protesters who were holding a peaceful protest at Lekki tollgate.

The #EndSARS protest, a campaign against police brutality and seeking the reform of the police, held in different parts of the country for more than two weeks.

Verification

Checks by Daily Trust have shown that the statement by MC Oluomo is false.

Reports stated that protesters died from live bullets fired by security operatives believed to be soldiers at the scene of the protest.

In an interview with CNN a few days after the incident, Sanwo-Olu confirmed that two protesters died.

He said, “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 a record….”

In another development, the Judicial Panel of Inquiry (JPI) set up by the Lagos State Government to probe the October 20, 2020 #EndSARs protest also revealed that at least 11 persons were killed during the peaceful demonstration at the Lekki Tollgate and another four missing and presumed dead.

The report, also described the Lekki Tollgate shootings as “a massacre.”

The report described as “atrocious” the maiming and killing of unarmed, helpless and unresisting protesters, while sitting on the floor, waving their Nigerian flags and singing the National Anthem, stressing that the act could be equated to a “massacre in context.”

Verdict

The claim by MC Oluomo that lives were not lost at Lekki Tollgate during the #EndSARS protest is false.

This Fact Check is produced in partnership with the Centre for Democracy and Development

colorsofrainbow:
Make I watch if mynd.44 will move this to front-page since it indicts his lovely Thiefnubuu

Zonefree:

They will edit the headline if it has to make front-page.

colorsofrainbow:
Make I watch if mynd44 will move this to front-page since it indicts his lovely Thiefnubuu

Racoon:
God will punish these wicked traitors and all who collaborators in the massacre of 20-10-2020. They all got blood on their hands.

Mystic216:
This is waste of “FACT-CHECK”
Even the blind knows the truth or were you paid by that agbero to write about him and give him a little attention

MC Oluomo abi MC Alomo is an agbero empowered by one old shaky shaky great grand masquerade that is well known for denial and agberoism in south west
So fact checking on what that agbero said regarding #ENDSARS is total waste of time

Vote for Peter Obi and see what moral of conduct feels like within our security agencies and official workers
No unnecessary reason to thief your future and that of your children again by these oldies

Vote for PETER OBI/YUSUF DATTI

Lifestone:

I'm not a fan of Mc Oluomo, but on this, he asked some very simple questions which all of you have been avoiding.
Who died by names and where were they buried. This looks simple to me, yet the Lekki massacre protagonist have refused to answer

The Nigerian government knows that the human rights is already on their case, hence the silencing!

No one except those benefitting from this government trusts them!

Don't even let me give you instances, you could as well say that Obigbo did not happen

What has been the federal government response to that

God will judge each and everyone of you that knows the truth yet denying it!

What about the shooting of of christians in Ondo State

Can we say that the government has no value for life

Lifestone:

I'm not a fan of Mc Oluomo, but on this, he asked some very simple questions which all of you have been avoiding.
Who died by names and where were they buried. This looks simple to me, yet the Lekki massacre protagonist have refused to answer

Wisetrue99:

The Nigerian government knows that the human rights is already on their case, hence the silencing!

No one except those benefitting from this government trusts them!

Don't even let me give you instances, you could as well say that Obigbo did not happen

What has been the federal government response to that

God will judge each and everyone of you that knows the truth yet denying it!

What about the shooting of of christians in Ondo State

Can we say that the government has no value for life

Lifestone:

This is not about denying. It's about seeing things the way it happened. We all saw the names of those who died in the Owo massacre and when they were buried. How come we don't know anything about this Lekki own. People seems to believe what they think here and not reality.
Note that I'm not a fan of this government but let's stop this lies.
Are there death in Lekki, maybe yes, is there a massacre, answer is NO
One death is bad enough, but state the truth the way it is, not the alternate facts as advanced by the narratives of CNN

Ekejoestar:
In all the atrocities that has happened in Nigeria, that lekki massacre was the highlight of it all, imagine soldiers shooting at citizens waving the national flag that you claim to defend.

Deltafirstson:
Only in lagos agboro dey get mouth

Wisetrue99:

The Nigerian government knows that the human rights is already on their case, hence the silencing!

No one except those benefitting from this government trusts them!

Don't even let me give you instances, you could as well say that Obigbo did not happen

What has been the federal government response to that

God will judge each and everyone of you that knows the truth yet denying it!

What about the shooting of of christians in Ondo State

Can we say that the government has no value for life