…Endsars protesters sighted around sitting premises
By Adeniyi Sunday
The Lagos Judicial Panel of Inquiry had resumed sitting examining the footage of the Lekki shooting of protesters by the soldiers.
The panel of inquiry set up by the government to probe the Lekki shootings as well as complaints of human rights abuses against members of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad opened todays sitting with the viewing of the CCTV footage submitted by the Lekki Concession Company, operators of the Lekki toll gate.
It was observed that the CCTV footage has no audio and shows protesters in anorderly manner with light still on.
Sparklight News also learnt that the representatives of the youths insisted that they would love to watch the footage to the end to ascertain the true state of things.
The viewing of footage began around 11:30am on Friday.
In a related development, some endsars protesters were sighted around the premises of the seating requesting for audience by the judicial panel.
The soldiers who had earlier refused to appeal before the panel had made a u-turn by swallowing their earlier threat.
The Nigerian Army, contrary to its decision last week, will appear on Saturday before the Lagos State Panel of Inquiry probing the alleged shooting of #EndSARS peaceful protesters by soldiers on October 20 at the Lekki tollgate.
According to a confirmed report shows that the army had acknowledged the panel’s invitation and the panel had fixed Saturday November 7 for its appearance at the hearing taking place at the Lagos Court of Arbitration, Lekki.
