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The Lagos government has paid a forensic team to aid the investigation of the October 2020 incident.

Lagos government hires forensic team to investigate Lekki toll gate shooting of peaceful #EndSARS protesters | Pulse Nigeria

Samson Toromade

<h1>The Lagos State government has hired a team to conduct an independent forensic examination of the Lekki toll gate.</h1>

Nigerian soldiers <a href="https://www.pulse.ng/news/local/endsars-protests-were-peaceful-until-government-crushed-them/96xnrbk">attacked peaceful #EndSARS protesters</a> at the toll gate on October 20, 2020 after weeks of demonstrations against police brutality.

Soldiers fired on the protesters after the declaration of a curfew, leading to a yet-to-be-determined number of fatalities disputed by the government.

A judicial panel of inquiry investigating the incident revealed during a sitting on Tuesday, January 5, 2021 that the Lagos government has paid a forensic team to aid the investigation.

Chairperson of the panel, Justice Doris Okuwobi, announced this after the Lekki Concession Company (LCC) repeated a request that it be allowed to retake control of the toll gate which was vandalised after the October shooting.

Okuwobi denied the request, noting that the forensic examination will be completed within 21 days.

"Forensic analysis will clear a lot of issues in the incident of October 20, 2020, and a huge sum has been paid by the Lagos State Government for it.&nbsp;

"The desire is that the panel will unearth the truth of what happened," she said.

The panel adjourned further consideration of the LCC's application to January 29.

Despite eyewitness accounts of fatalities from the incident, the Nigerian Army has maintained that troops only fired blanks in the air to disperse protesters.

The government has also launched a media attack against those who have accepted the claims of eyewitnesses, claiming that their accounts were influenced <a href="https://www.pulse.ng/news/local/lai-mohammed-says-lekki-massacre-is-a-hoax/sbtgpfg">to cause disharmony in the country</a>.

#EndSARS protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate, Lagos

Lagos government hires forensic team to investigate Lekki toll gate shooting of peaceful #EndSARS protesters

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