The federal government has finally released official figures
of Nigerians killed in the violence that occured after the End SARS protest
went awry.
Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, provided the details
on Thursday.
He accused CNN of looking the other way even though
civilians and security operatives died during the civil disorder.
“In its jaundiced reporting, CNN was blind to the fact that
six soldiers and 37 policemen were killed in unprovoked attacks.”
Mohammed said despite arresting hordes of looters during the
violence in Lagos, the Army counseled and treated them humanely before hand
over to the police.
He stressed that the same cannot be said of those that
killed security personnel in a barbaric manner.
“Six soldiers and 37 policemen were killed all over the
country during the crisis. This is in addition to 196 policemen who were
injured; 164 police vehicles that were destroyed and 134 police stations that
were razed.”
Mohammed lambasted human rights organizations, adding that
they became suspect after “ignoring” the murder of law enforcement officers
during the crisis.
He announced that the of unrest “left 57 civilians dead, 269
private/corporate facilities burnt/looted/vandalized, 243 government facilities
burnt/vandalized and 81 government warehouses looted, and instead continued to
dwell on the bodiless and bloodless ‘massacre’ at Lekki Toll Gate.”
Mohammed said they did not see anything wrong in the public
and private properties that were burnt or looted.
The minister noted that all they could see in their “biased
view” of the whole situation was a “hoax massacre”.
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