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.

While the Lagos State Government would not have dignified the mischievous elements peddling such news with a response, we consider it appropriate to set the records straight and draw the attention of well-meaning citizens to the antics of some unscrupulous elements who are hell bent on disrupting the peace and tranquility of Lagos with distorted news and half-truth about the PPA letter.

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, including 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.


In the aftermath of the #EndSARS violence, the office of the Chief Coroner invited members of the public Throughout public adverts and announcement 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.

Decongestion of our public morgues is a periodic and regular exercise approved by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to free up space in mortuaries that have a large number of unclaimed bodies.

Dr Olusegun Ogboye
Permanent Secretary
Ministry of Health
July 23, 2023

CannibalTorment:
The handiwork of bereaved and grieving people

Depriest2020:
So truly people were killed? Up-to 103, I first thought it was fake News that's why I refused to comment when I first saw the news. Lagos state government is claiming that the dead body was not from lekki toll gate but from other parts of Lagos on the 20/10/2020 End SARS protest.

What difference does it make if the massacre didn't happen at lekki toll gate but from other parts of Lagos? Is it only when it happens at lekki toll gate that it would be termed massacre? And those who killed the protesters are walking free.

plaindealer:


Do you mean the massacre happened in other places too apart from Lekki?

Even the dead body picked up in Mushin or Ikorodu in an unexplained manner of death is also a massacre and if so massacre by who?

Or the new story is, the military also drove around Lagos massacring people.

How hard is it for you people to get your l;ies and propaganda straight? Or is it by force to lie and make up rubbish?

Depriest2020:

Direct your questions to Lagos state government who admitted that the dead body of End SARS victims they signed contract for their mass burial was from other parts of the state End SARS protesters and not from lekki toll gate.

plaindealer:



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Do you mean the LASG is responsible for your bogus rubbish and ignorant comment on NL?

Must you blame other people for your dub comment that deaths in other places apart from Lekki are also massacres?

Do you not see how silly, unintelligent and empty you sound?

Depriest2020:

Is it the word massacre that is hurting you? Or that i accused the Lagos state government that massacred them that hurts you more? You would have had no issues with my comment if I had said the protesters killed themselves right?

plaindealer:



No, it's your ignorant and unintelligent assertion that bodies picked up all over Lagos are victims of massacre.

LASG did not force you to make that thoughtless and pedestrian comment and I definitely did not make you utter that rubbish.

Coward trying to blame other people for his own foolery and ignorant comment.

Depriest2020:

Thank goodness you believed there's bodies that were picked up.