President Muhammadu Buhari has been asked to sack the
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed immediately.
The call came following the report of the Panel of
Investigation set by the Lagos State Government to unravel the incidents of
October 20, 2020, at the popular Lekki Toll Gate, Lagos State.
The report released during the week had indicted the police
and soldiers of the Nigerian Army of having killed and maimed harmless youths
protesting illicit police activities and bad governance in Nigeria.
But Mohammed, in a series of press conferences has
continually denied anyone was killed when soldiers invaded the protest scene.
Despite the Federal Government’s stance, the report shows
obvious evidence that there was indeed a massacre at the Lekki tollgate.
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA)
advocated his dismissal, arrest, and trial for his egregious falsehood which
has now been contradicted by a judicial panel of investigators in Lagos.
HURIWA made the demand in a media statement made against the
backdrops of the issuance of a conclusive judicial report and verdict by the
Lagos State Judicial Panel of investigations.
The 309-page report detailed how the Army and Police
disregarded their rules of engagement during the protest.
HURIWA recalled that Mohammed also faulted the claim by
Amnesty International that no fewer than 12 protesters were killed in Lagos
State by security operatives during the EndSARS protest.
HURIWA “is asking President Muhammadu Buhari as a biological
father of many well-educated children, to order the arrest and prosecution of
his minister of information Lai Mohammed for committing a grave and heartless
offence that is equivalent to the denial of the Holocaust of the 6 million Jews
by Adolf Hitler which is punishable by nearly half a century of incarceration.
”
HURIWA “is also commending the brave members and Chairperson
of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on the #ENDSARS PROTESTS
especially the circumstances surrounding the massive cases of extrajudicial
killings by the Army and armed police when these armed forces opened fire with
lethal weapons targeted at the unarmed protesters.”
The rights group has asked the President not to sweep the
lawlessness of the security agencies under the carpets just as it said if the
President allows his information minister to get away with the impunity of
denying the massacre that happened before the eyes of the World captured live
on video cameras, then he will be remembered long after he has retired from
public office as a dictator who oversaw the genocide of young protesters and
the generations unborn will never forgive him for this.
“President Muhammadu Buhari must note that as a Father of
many Children he needs to ensure that impunity is never tolerated especially
the extrajudicial killings of very youngsters of Nigeria by the Army just for
protesting police Brutality”, HURIWA affirmed.
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