Soldiers manning the gate at the Military Hospital in Ikoyi have stopped the Lagos judicial panel on #EndSARS from assessing the hospital’s mortuary.
The panel, unannounced, on Friday went to the hospital on
investigation into the shooting at Lekki tollgate where 15 protesters were
reportedly killed.
Witnesses of the Lekki shooting accused the military of
taking away the bodies of those killed in the incident.
The panel met resistance as it got to the gate of the
hospital.
Ebun Adegboruwa, a member of the panel, told soldiers, who
stopped them at the gate, that the panel came to the hospital because it had
intelligence that might help with its investigation.
“The facility is relevant to our investigation. We have a
pathologist. We are here on the authority of the president, not only the
governor,” he said.
“We are following dues process, and it is important we visit
the mortuary as it will help our findings.
“If we are not allowed access, we will go back and take
other actions. We won’t force ourselves in. We have confidential information
that the military hospital here is relevant in the investigation of the Lekki
event. We heard this hospital is controlled by 65 battalion, and under the 81
division. We are also taking steps to reach military authorities.”
Adegboruwa said though the panel does not have evidence that there are bodies of those killed at the tollgate in the hospital, it was at the facility to verify the claim that they were.
Soldiers deny Judicial Panel of Inquiry and members of the press access to the Military Hospital in Ikoyi, Lagos. This is another stop on the Judicial Panel's tour of sites crucial to their investigation. pic.twitter.com/fzNQbayZ56
— ARISE News Feed (@ARISEtv) October 30, 2020
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