Lagos state judicial panel of inquiry says it has received Autopsy reports of 99 persons reportedly killed in Lagos during last year’s #EndSARS protests.
The panel chaired by Doris Okuwobi also admitted compact discs of all the 99 bodies deposited at the morgues in the state, between October 20 and 27, 2020.
The Chief Pathologist of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), John Obafunwa, who testified before the panel submitted the reports following an order on June 5 for the post mortem results of all the 99 corpses to be made available.
Obafunwa also noted that three of the corpses, which were male, came from the Lekki axis of the state, while the remaining 96 came from other parts of the state including Surulere, Ikorodu, Ajah, Fagba, among others.
The panel then ordered that the pathologist should produce the post-mortem examination reports to verify his testimony.
At the panel’s sitting on Saturday, the reports were admitted as evidence.
Other counsels at the panel did not raise any objection towards the admittance of the documents.
The matter was adjourned to July 13, 2021, for further hearing.
In October 2020, Nigerians across the country took to the streets to protest against police brutality.
On October 20, soldiers invaded the Lekki tollgate, where some demonstrators had gathered, and fired shots.
There has been a controversy around the casualty figures since the incident occurred.
Ahmed Taiwo, Commander of the 81 Division, Military Intelligence Brigade, Victoria Island, told the Lagos Judicial Panel of Inquiry into the Lekki Tollgate incident then that the army went to the tollgate “with both blank and live ammunition”.
The official also fell short of saying his men fired live shots at Nigerians on their way “to clear the Lekki, Eti-Osa corridor”.
