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Re: Opinion:#endsars Panel-why Nigeria Will Not Move Forward With This Thinking by barragan: 10:51pm On Nov 20, 2021 |
Mynd44: They have zero critical thinking. All these your explanation will go right over the heads of the sorosoke 'yoots'. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Opinion:#endsars Panel-why Nigeria Will Not Move Forward With This Thinking by barragan: 10:53pm On Nov 20, 2021 |
DasaintHope: Clearly you don't know anything. Owonikoko SAN is not a panel member. 1 Like |
Re: Opinion:#endsars Panel-why Nigeria Will Not Move Forward With This Thinking by MICHEALADEX(m): 10:55pm On Nov 20, 2021 |
DasaintHope: You're the one with a jammed brain |
Re: Opinion:#endsars Panel-why Nigeria Will Not Move Forward With This Thinking by MICHEALADEX(m): 10:58pm On Nov 20, 2021 |
isaacola57: I tot you guys said lcc removed the cameras...unha no well at all. You guys have planned how to share the monies abi |
Re: Opinion:#endsars Panel-why Nigeria Will Not Move Forward With This Thinking by MICHEALADEX(m): 10:59pm On Nov 20, 2021 |
Tomahawk99: Death or massacre? |
Re: Opinion:#endsars Panel-why Nigeria Will Not Move Forward With This Thinking by Ovamboland(m): 11:05pm On Nov 20, 2021 |
DasaintHope: Why were these drama pictures shared as Lekki massacres? 2 Likes 1 Share
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Re: Opinion:#endsars Panel-why Nigeria Will Not Move Forward With This Thinking by christistruth01: 11:09pm On Nov 20, 2021 |
https://www.thecable.ng/missing-links-the-judicial-panel-of-inquiry-into-endsars-protest-and-lekki-tollgate-incident TheCable Missing links: The judicial panel of inquiry into #EndSARS protest and Lekki tollgate incident Missing links: The judicial panel of inquiry into #EndSARS protest and Lekki tollgate incident November 20 10:09 2021 by Contributor 0 Comments BY ABUBAKRI YEKINI On November 15, 2021, the judicial panel of inquiry (JPI) delivered its report to the governor of Lagos state. Upon submission of the report, the governor set up a four-man committee chaired by the attorney-general of the state. The committee had two weeks to review the report after which government will issue a White Paper in accordance with the provisions of the Tribunal of Inquiry Law 2015. Advertisement However, before the ink had dried on the submitted report, a member or members of the JPI leaked an unsigned copy of the report in social media space in total breach of trust and the law setting up the JPI. This was in tandem with a threat issued by a panel member Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN, who had in a Facebook post threatened to release the report of the panel if the government fails to publish the findings and recommendations. After the leakage social and news media was awash with various seemingly damning quotes from the JPI report. Sadly, the commentaries, even from otherwise respected members of society show that most commentators had not even read leaked the report. I must first confess that even one death is bad enough and this write-up should not be seen as justifying the death of anyone, be they protesters, security agents, or anyone for that matter. Advertisement On page 283 paragraph 3 (A) and page 284 (C), the findings against the deployment of the military overlook the complete breakdown of law and order all over Lagos which led to the imposition of a curfew by the state government on 20/10/20. Uncontroverted evidence before the panel was that the military deployed all over Lagos and not just to Lekki tollgate (LTG) because the police had clearly become overwhelmed and could no longer maintain law and order. Page 286 (D): Panel held that it recovered bullet casings/shells at LTG when it visited the toll gate on 30/10/20. This contradicts the finding of the same panel on page 296, paragraphs 13 & 14: “Three trucks with brushes underneath were brought to LTG on the morning of October 21st 2020 to clean up the scene of bloodstains and other evidence.” This finding, the JPI stated amounts to evidence of a cover-up, yet it still found 2 bullet casings at the same cover-up scene 10 days after the incident. Page 287 (H): The medical evidence before the panel from hospitals who treated protesters said only 2 deaths were recorded in their facilities. This is contrary to the evidence of Doctor Lawson contained on pages 56 – 68 and Dr. Aromolate contained on pages 109-115 respectively. Advertisement Page 287 (K): Panel claimed it relied on evidence of one of the protesters who was shot and taken for dead, but escaped and stated that 11 corpses were in a van where he had been put in and presumed dead. However, Olalekan Sanusi, the protester in question was never stated to have testified before the panel. This crucial finding made by the panel was based merely on video footage of Olalekan Sanusi played by another witness Serah Ibrahim on page 165. On page 288 paragraph (M), the panel crucially held: “The evidence of the pathologist Prof Obafunwa that only 3 of the bodies that they conducted post mortem examination on were from Lekki and only one had Gunshot injury and this was not debunked. We deem it credible as the contrary was not presented before the panel.” However, in a complete turnaround from the above finding on page 288 paragraph M, the same panel went on to find that more (9) people died of gunshots wounds than what the pathologist who conducted autopsies on all the bodies picked up during the entire #EndSARS protest said. This is despite the panel saying that there was no contrary evidence to that of Prof Obafunwa before it. So page 288, paragraphs O and P are contradictory to the finding on page 288, paragraph M. On page 289, paragraph T, the evidence of the ballistic expert called by Lagos state, Dieye-Tonye Wille-Harry, testified that from the evidence which he reviewed was that no one died from military-grade bullets at LTG. Advertisement Page 292, paragraph J, although the panel held that the police were present at LTG and shot sporadically and killed protesters, the evidence established before the panel was that only one officer ASP Ayodele Olabode with one rifle was assigned to Lekki patrol on 19th October. Furthermore, no one identified or mentioned this officer as being responsible for any deaths at LTG and the panel made no such finding either. On page 293, paragraph N, the panel found that one protester was killed by the police around LTG. However, curiously, neither the name of the protester nor that of the alleged police shooter was provided. Even though in this paragraph no further details of this shooting were supplied, this is evidence of the levity with which the panel arrived at its findings. This finding is not backed up by any iota of evidence. It is unbelievable that a finding of death can be made in such a cavalier manner. On page 295, paragraph 9, the panel rejected the evidence of experts who relied on science to compile their report/testimonies and preferred anecdotal stories from so-called eyewitness accounts of protesters. On page 296, paragraph 12, the panel stated that picking of dead corpses by the Lagos State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit (LASEHMU) statewide and depositing them at mortuaries after the protests were evidence of a cover-up? Should the government have allowed corpses to rot on the streets to show there was no cover-up? How can the exercise of its ministerial mandate by LASEHMU be deemed as a cover-up? The corpses according to the panel were taken to mortuaries and in fact, this act accounted for the number of corpses for which autopsies were performed across the state during the crucial period. Advertisement The panel relied on the testimony of protesters that the Army prevented ambulances from ferrying away injured protestors. This was an uncorroborated piece of evidence. No single picture or footage of any ambulance being turned away was said to have been tendered before the panel. This is on page 296 paragraph 15. Furthermore, there is no evidence of any ambulance personnel being invited to testify before the panel to this effect. On page 296 paragraph 17, the panel speculated when it stated that #EndSARS protesters and victims of LTG were “largely unwillingly” to be identified in public for fear of prosecution and harassment. There was no evidence before the panel to this effect. One thing the protesters could not be accused of was shyness or fear of being identified. Protestors took hundreds/thousands of pictures and video footage during the protest and even during the panel sittings. This finding flies in the face of the reality of the character of the protesters and what their protests represent. On pages 296 -297, the panel set out a list of what it called casualties at the toll gate incident of 20/10/21. This list contains 48 names. No explanation was offered for how the panel arrived at this list, neither was any evidence provided as to how they became casualties. And that is why for example it has come to light that one Nathaniel Solomon listed at No46 on the list of casualties as deceased has been proven to be alive. On page 298, paragraph B, the JPI accused LCC of removing cameras to cover up. However, the unchallenged evidence of LCC was that the cameras which were removed were number plate reading cameras. Advertisement On page 301, paragraph C, the panel rejected the evidence of Lagos state’s ballistic expert because he didn’t speak to witnesses, pathologists, petitioners, protesters or doctors. The ballistic expert didn’t need to speak to these people as his evidence was concentrated on whether military-grade ammunition was used at LTG on 20/10/20. The expert said his team simply examined medical records, X-rays, pictures and footage of events at LTG and of the shell casings allegedly picked up at the LTG, this did not require him to talk to the persons mentioned by the panel. He also compared the bullet casings/shells found allegedly picked up at LTG with bullet casings or shells from military-grade weapons and locally made guns or pistols. The finding on page 302, paragraphs V & VI is inconsistent with the earlier finding regarding Prof Obafunwa’s testimony that only 3 out of the 96 bodies he performed the autopsy for were from Lekki and that only one out of the three corpses from Lekki had gunshot wounds. See page 288 paragraph M. The statement of the panel contained on page 302, paragraph VII is highly speculative. To say that unidentified corpses in the 96 autopsies lend credence to the case of the #EndSARS protestors that shootings by security agencies resulted in mass deaths. Apart from being highly speculative, there is no direct evidence backing up this assertion. How many corpses amongst the 96 died as a result of gunshot wounds for example? And who in particular fired the alleged shots? Prof Obafunwa’s testimony that the corpses were picked up all over the State during the period of the protest, the Panel however ignored this to suit its unfounded decisions. On page 302 paragraph X, the panel again rejects unchallenged and uncontroverted evidence about deaths in Ikoyi correctional centre to fit into its speculative narrative of deaths in LTG. The finding at para 4 page 14 of the executive summary which is supposed to be a summary of the main findings is not contained anywhere in the findings made by the panel. Curiously and in line with its narrative to uphold the unsubstantiated claims of the #EndSARS protesters the panel awarded the sum of N10m to Serah Ibrahim who was called as a witness for the protesters. This is most curious because Serah Ibrahim was not a petitioner before the panel. She also did not seek any compensation whatsoever. The panel however standing logic on its head decided to award a compensation of N10m to her calling it “severe trauma award”. The question is of all the witnesses who testified before the panel what made Serah Ibrahim different for her to be singled out for this generous award and what disqualified the other witnesses from the panel’s generosity. This is one of the strongest evidence of bias demonstrated by the panel in favour of the protesters. Evidence before the panel was that the 10th (Japhet) person on the victims’ list was shot at Ajah and presented at the hospital on 22/10/20. Yet the panel listed him as being shot at LTG (see evidence of Reddington Hospital at pages 54-60). Similarly, Mabel NNAJI (No 7 on the victims’ list) was said to have been shot by pellets as established by the evidence before the panel yet the panel said she was shot by the Military. (see page 57). This high-powered panel obviously doesn’t know that military-grade weapons do not fire pellets. Finally, throughout its 309 pages leaked report, not a single word of support or commiseration was offered by the panel to the several policemen slaughtered directly or indirectly as a result of the actions of the protestors nor to the thousands of innocent citizens whose property were looted, burnt or destroyed by protesters. The panel seemed to be too consumed by its bias for the protestors to recognize the “severe trauma” of these groups. Abubakri Yekini writes from Lagos. 1 Like |
Re: Opinion:#endsars Panel-why Nigeria Will Not Move Forward With This Thinking by Ovamboland(m): 11:10pm On Nov 20, 2021 |
DasaintHope: You are the type of people who label old women as witches because you don't like them. 1 Like |
Re: Opinion:#endsars Panel-why Nigeria Will Not Move Forward With This Thinking by Ovamboland(m): 11:11pm On Nov 20, 2021 |
Tomahawk99: Endsars kids |
Re: Opinion:#endsars Panel-why Nigeria Will Not Move Forward With This Thinking by Ovamboland(m): 11:14pm On Nov 20, 2021 |
DasaintHope: For people who sincerely believed Jubril from Sudan from Kanu, theres not much to say |
Re: Opinion:#endsars Panel-why Nigeria Will Not Move Forward With This Thinking by luizpippo(m): 11:17pm On Nov 20, 2021 |
louqas: Do you still snap pictures while live streaming? There are questions begging for answers pre- Panel which should give us a better picture. * Why was the CCTV removed at that afternoon? *You said soldiers shot, please was there any valid reason to shoot at all? *You admit the soldier shot at people, that means multiple bullets, how come there were barely any shell casings in the morning? Does that not lay credence to the accusation that they cleaned the scene of evidence? * Admitting that soldiers shot at people, injuring or killing some, if we say miscreants needed the shell casings so desperately to sell to iron condemn, how come the blood stain or spatter disappeared, doesn't that return us to the above accusation? *Why did the army claim it didn't shoot, later went for it shot blanks alone, then it shot both blanks and live? *This is directed at you personally, do you feel the DJ's IG live was fake? *This is also for your bros, one year after, can we say the FSARS atrocities are no longer happening? |
Re: Opinion:#endsars Panel-why Nigeria Will Not Move Forward With This Thinking by christistruth01: 11:18pm On Nov 20, 2021 |
Ovamboland: Sorry to say this But the British who found their Fathers naked in the Jungle hunting and gleefully feeding on each other for food The British opened their eyes to a good way of life who taught them how to wear Clothes and how to reject pagan ways to be Civilised and to see the light of Christ Do IPOB not curse the same British from morning to night ? Ungrateful Thugs 1 Like |
Re: Opinion:#endsars Panel-why Nigeria Will Not Move Forward With This Thinking by ba7man(m): 12:09am On Nov 21, 2021 |
DasaintHope:The question you should be asking is "How true is Awonikoko's allegations"?? |
Re: Opinion:#endsars Panel-why Nigeria Will Not Move Forward With This Thinking by plaindealer: 1:32am On Nov 21, 2021 |
luizpippo: 1 year later after your fake news, you are still peddling the same fake news rubbish.. They did not remove any CCTV camera, what they removed was license plate reader. The same CCTV camera you liars claimed was removed was played before the panel.. Leaders of tomorrow don turn to lairs of tomorrow..
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Re: Opinion:#endsars Panel-why Nigeria Will Not Move Forward With This Thinking by christistruth01: 1:36am On Nov 21, 2021 |
Lagos ENDSARS panel deliberate misrepresentations spotted in leaked report By Editor - November 20, 2021 image Share this on WhatsApp Spread the love A testimony by Dr. Babajide Lawson, a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at Reddington Hospital, Lagos on the Lekki incident as quoted in the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry report has been found to be altered in a re-presentation by the panel, PRNigeria can confirm. On page 67 of the report, the witness (Dr Lawson) confirmed that there were several people that presented on the 21st with all manner of complaints of body injuries like cuts and bruises/injuries which most of them alleged were sustained at Lekki Toll Gate. He stated that it was not possible to confirm where the injuries occurred at the time. He also stated that some of the patients who presented only required basic dressing of their wounds. “The witness (Dr Lawson) confirmed that one Amako Francis also presented on 21st October, 2020 with a knife stab wound or a wound from a sharp object, as opposed to a gunshot injury. He also confirmed that the patient was not treated after the 21st of October, 2020. The witness also confirmed that a patient named Bright Osarehemen presented on the 22nd of October, 2020 with a gunshot injury of six (6) hours duration after the incident. He explained that the patient was injured on the day of presentation. He indicated that it was unlikely that the instant patient could have been a victim of the incident which occurred at the Lekki toll gate on the 20th of October, 2020. However, in re-presenting Mr. Lawson on page 301 of the same report, the panel said it, “finds that the testimony of Dr. Babajide Lawson of Reddington Hospital as to the nature of treatment offered victims of the Lekki Toll Gate Incident in relation to gunshot wounds which were high velocity ‘entry and exit’, all indicate injuries from military weapons, consistent with the bullet shells recovered by the Panel during its visit and the witnesses that testified before the Panel” Meanwhile, in the entire report there was nowhere Dr. Lawson mentioned ‘military weapons’ or ‘high velocity entry and exit’ to ‘military weapons’ as interpreted by the panel. Further examination by PRNigeria reveals that the only closely related article to that was a page 64 commentary of what the report said on Dr Lawson’s observation, and it states that, “In response to whether high energy meant high velocity, the witness explained that the term ‘velocity’ was used in the past but it had been modified. He further explained that where the velocity was high, then the firearm was high energy. However, velocity alone did not qualify a firearm, which was why the terminology had been discarded or modified.” The panel further stated that Dr. Lawson “confirmed that he knew the difference between low, medium and high energy injuries and also agreed that it could be said that the three (3) types of injuries are usually caused by different firearms. That a person shot with a double-barreled shot-gun was an approximation between medium to high energy. He informed the Panel that as a doctor, he did not know what a craft arm was. The witness was then asked the energy level he would categorize a military-grade gun, the witness did not eventually answer the question due to Mr. Fusika’s objection.” Other inconsistencies observed by PRNigeria on the same matter was the case of one Edward Matthew whom Dr. Lawson confirmed that his report was issued 30th of October, 2020 confirming that the patient had presented at the hospital at about 8.30pm on the 19th of October, 2020 before the incident at Lekki occurred. There was also a report of Ajoku Japhet, the medical doctor confirmed that the patient presented with a gunshot injury on the 22nd of October, 2020 and claimed to have been shot at Ajah, not Lekki Toll Gate. The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry Panel on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses led by a retired judge, Doris Okuwobi has in its report, said at least 46 unarmed protesters were either shot dead, injured with bullets, or assaulted by security forces at the Lekki Tollgate on October 20 last year. However, the Lagos State Government has said that over 40 discrepancies were found in the report on the shooting of unarmed #EndSARS protesters at Lekki Toll Gate on October 20, 2020. Counsel to the state government on the Judicial Panel of Inquiry on #EndSARS protests, Abiodun Owonikoko said this during an interview with Arise News monitored by PRNigeria on Thursday. Owonikoko berated the report and said that there were several details, information left out of it by the panel. He accused the panel of awarding damages to alleged victims of the incident who are still allegedly alive. The lawyer cited an example of a 24-year-old man that was killed in a police barracks but was not included in the final report. After receiving the report on Monday night, the Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu had set up a four-member committee for White Paper, vowing to ensure justice is done to all concerned. PRNigeria Share this on WhatsApp image Previous article Vaccinated people die at higher rate than normal, Swedish study shows FOLLOW US Disclaimer Privacy Advertisement Contact Us © |
Re: Opinion:#endsars Panel-why Nigeria Will Not Move Forward With This Thinking by plaindealer: 1:39am On Nov 21, 2021 |
luizpippo: Was Runaway DJ swish live streaming when she saw them military loading and driving away with dead bodies.? Oh I forgot, her camera conveniently died. Btw, you don't have to turn off streaming to capture images. |
Re: Opinion:#endsars Panel-why Nigeria Will Not Move Forward With This Thinking by christistruth01: 2:21am On Nov 21, 2021 |
plaindealer:. Latest Absolutely disgraceful .https://theeagleonline.com.ng/endsars-report-panel-alters-medical-doctors-testimony-on-lekki-incident/ https://prnigeria.com/2021/11/20/endsars-report-panel-doctor/
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Re: Opinion:#endsars Panel-why Nigeria Will Not Move Forward With This Thinking by Tomahawk99(m): 4:16am On Nov 21, 2021 |
Ovamboland:Mumu. |
Re: Opinion:#endsars Panel-why Nigeria Will Not Move Forward With This Thinking by luizpippo(m): 5:55am On Nov 21, 2021 |
plaindealer: She was live streaming and didn't take pictures or must she take pictures on your behalf? Since you want to be petty. |
Re: Opinion:#endsars Panel-why Nigeria Will Not Move Forward With This Thinking by plaindealer: 6:12am On Nov 21, 2021 |
luizpippo: Sadly for you, she was under zero obligation to take pictures on my behalf, but she conveniently failed to pictures on behalf of the so-called dead people she pretend to care so much about. So, when she was livestreaming, was her 3rd eye elsewhere seeing dead bodies and the military loading and driving away with dead people or focused on her livestreaming duties? You people did not tell us that apart from being a Runaway DJ, she's a multitasker and she has a 3rd eye, she was livestreaming while looking at dead people, but she was either lying, incompetent or unable to turn the camera to livestream the military driving away with dead bodies Look here you people are not making any sense, if she was livestreaming while looking military people driving away with dead bodies, was she unable to turn her livestreaming to capture the military driving away with dead bodies? Now, the coward is a liar, she did not see any dead body, this is this reason why the coward refused to testify before the panel she's now celebrating for their rubbish report full of lies, her testimony could have helped if she really cared or truthful about what she saw.. She's nothing but a lying coward. |
Re: Opinion:#endsars Panel-why Nigeria Will Not Move Forward With This Thinking by plaindealer: 6:17am On Nov 21, 2021 |
Oh, I forgot, she actually said she took the dead people to the military her self, 15 dead people, all by herself. What a superwoman. That lying clown fit lie and win for Olympics.. |
Re: Opinion:#endsars Panel-why Nigeria Will Not Move Forward With This Thinking by luizpippo(m): 6:35am On Nov 21, 2021 |
christistruth01: If actually you can read, you could see my questions were pre-panel sittings because I won't want to dabble into a report that your side of the divide claimed its unsigned and probably invalid. I have refrained from qouting you because you have proven to be something that is incapable of processing its own thoughts, all you do is regurgitate whatever you have seen others state, come up with screenshot of vague and opaque newspaper clippings and its likes. When you gets questions that requires you to provide a unautomated response to, silence becomes the order of the day. So you are not actually worth the weight. |
Re: Opinion:#endsars Panel-why Nigeria Will Not Move Forward With This Thinking by luizpippo(m): 6:41am On Nov 21, 2021 |
plaindealer: Did you watch the live stream? |
Re: Opinion:#endsars Panel-why Nigeria Will Not Move Forward With This Thinking by plaindealer: 7:43am On Nov 21, 2021 |
luizpippo: What's me watching it or not got to do with the runaway dj live-streaming and looking at the military loading and driving away with dead bodies? Abi you mean I missed the part where she livestreamed the dead bodies too or how she gallantly carried 15 bodies to the military.? Dude, that lying coward is a waste of your time, stop carrying water bottle for disgusting liars and coward like that lying woman. |
Re: Opinion:#endsars Panel-why Nigeria Will Not Move Forward With This Thinking by isaacola57: 8:01am On Nov 21, 2021 |
plaindealer:you are entitled to ur opinion.. |
Re: Opinion:#endsars Panel-why Nigeria Will Not Move Forward With This Thinking by luizpippo(m): 9:20am On Nov 21, 2021 |
plaindealer:Did you watch it? Yes or No? |
Re: Opinion:#endsars Panel-why Nigeria Will Not Move Forward With This Thinking by christistruth01: 1:17pm On Nov 21, 2021 |
luizpippo: https://twitter.com/wFalabede/status/1462311402597662721?s=20 |
Re: Opinion:#endsars Panel-why Nigeria Will Not Move Forward With This Thinking by Ovamboland(m): 9:00am On Nov 23, 2021 |
plaindealer: They can't survive without lies and self deceit. No evidence can change their minds. They roll on emotions they don't care about facts and evidence. Learning is alien to them |
Re: Opinion:#endsars Panel-why Nigeria Will Not Move Forward With This Thinking by Ovamboland(m): 9:06am On Nov 23, 2021 |
plaindealer: How will they address this one now? She said she dropped the dead body at the feet of the soldiers, and soro soke kids swallowed it without thinking. They will all go mute on her superwoman abilities. |
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