The Chief Press Secretary to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of
Lagos State, Gboyega Akosile, has joined the hashtag #LekkiLies on Twitter.
The hashtag became a trend after the US Department of States
said it could not verify if #EndSARS protesters were killed at the Lekki toll
gate in Lagos on October 20, 2020.
The US department disclosed this in a report titled ‘2020
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Nigeria.’
Immediately after the report surfaced, many Nigerians took to Twitter to lament the damages the country suffered after soldiers of the Nigerian Army were alleged to have carried out a massacre on #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki toll gate.
This gave birth to the hashtag #LekkiLies with Sanwo-Olu’s
aide joining in to reveal an encounter he had with his daughter.
He tweeted, “A trying time. An opportunity to know true friends,
family, colleagues etc. My daughter stood up to me, to ask a direct question,
“dad, tell me the truth! Painfully, I told her “if I lie to other ppl in the
world, I won’t lie to you.” She believed me. That was enough. #LEKKILIES.”
Akosile’s principal, Sanwo-Olu, had been heavily criticised
on social media following the alleged action of the soldiers on the protesters.
Joining the hashtag, a Twitter user, @KemisolaAdekun1, said,
“They want to register a #massacre that never happened on our minds. We asked
for evidence, they gave us lies and tried to blackmail us emotionally. The
devastating wrecks of their original plan are still there for us to see.
#LEKKILIES.”
@bengbenro said, There is nothing shameful in believing a
wrong notion, it only becomes an issue if you still hold on to it after all
evidence has shown that you are wrong. Apologize for being misled on #lekkilies,
mend the broken fences & move on.”
@Ahayatu said, “Two erstwhile “friends” blocked me here
because I didn’t believe in #LEKKILIES now they can’t block America.”
@trolls_queen said, “The Lekki lies have been properly
busted by us here. No need to have the US telling us what we know in our
backyard.”
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