A newspaper publisher and former Managing Director of NAN News Agency of Nigeria), Mr Bayo Onanuga, has reviewed the report of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry Into the Toll Gate shooting and killing of October 20, 2020 and called on the Information Minister, Lai Mohammed to resign from office.
The report of the Panel chaired by Justice Doris Okuwobi, indicted Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Army and the Police in fatal saga.
The Panel found that soldiers were deployed in the Toll Gate on the invitation of Governor Sanwo-Olu and that there fatalities in the aftermath of the soldiers’ and subsequebt Police deployment.
Whereas, Governor Sanwo-Olu had denied inviting the Army when the incident happened and Lai Mohammed had denied that youths were killed, the Panel confirmed fatalities and likened what happened at the Toll Gate on October 20, 2020 to a massacre.
Onanuga who, until 2019, called the shots as NAN MD with Information Minister Lai Mohammed as supervising minister, asked the minister in the centre of disinformation in the whole saga to resign immediately for telling a lie, denying that there was no massacre.
Taking to his Facebook page, Onanuga wrote in a flowing prose: ”Nigeria is the only country in the world where public officials rarely resign, when they betray public trust egregiously or openly lie to the people.
“We now know the truth that there was indeed a massacre of defenceless young Nigerians by soldiers and policemen at the Lekki Toll Gate on 20-10-2020, contrary to the official lies that it didn’t happen.”
Onanuga stated: “The man who told the biggest lie and even embarrassed Nigeria by demanding an apology from CNN is still sitting pretty in office.
“Now that his lies have blown on his face, one expects that he should be honourable enough to resign and apologise to all those young Nigerians that he grossly offended.
“If he does not, one expects the President to demand his resignation letter. Nigeria deserves to be a country of honourable men and women.”
Onanuga admonished the President Buhari Administration: ”Integrity should be our watchword. President Integrity, over to you.”
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