Ahmed Taiwo, a brigadier general of the Nigerian Army, says
the military is not happy that Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos, denied
inviting soldiers to restore peace and order in the state.
He stated this while appearing before the Lagos judicial
panel on Saturday.
According to Taiwo, Sanwo-Olu called on the military for
support on October 20, after the #EndSARS crisis degenerated into chaos.
“I spoke with the governor and said the army was unhappy
that he said he did not ask the army to intervene. But I’m sure, after we’ve
watched everything, we saw he had more than reasonable grounds to ask he army
to intervene,” he said.
“Perhaps, it was the way everything went that made him say
so.”
Following the outrage that trailed the Lekki tollgate
incident, Sanwo-Olu blamed it on “forces beyond his direct control”.
“This is the toughest night of our lives as forces beyond
our direct control have moved to make dark notes in our history, but we will
face it and come out stronger,” the governor had said in a statement.
When he featured on CNN one week after the shooting, the
governor said the army was responsible for the incident.
The army had denied being responsible while the federal
government said it would investigate the tragic incident.
But Sanwo-Olu told CNN: “From the footage we could see,
because there were some cameras at that facility, it seems to me that they
would be men in military uniform—it should be Nigerian Army or something.”
Asked if he meant the military opened fire on protesters, he
said: “Yes. That’s what the footage showed.”
The army later said the governor invited them to restore
order after the protest went out of control.
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