There was no Lekki tollgate massacre during #EndSARS protest, Lai Mohammed insists
[NigerianEye - Nigeria] - 11/12/2025
Lai Mohammed, ex-minister of information, has insisted that there was no massacre at the Lekki tollgate in Lagos during the #EndSARS protests. In a report on the October 20, 2020 incident, CNN had alleged that soldiers used live bullets on the protesters. However, the army had repeatedly denied deploying live ammunition, saying it fired blank bullets in a bid to disperse the protesters after the government had announced a curfew. At the time, Mohammed, who was minister of information, wrote to Jonathan Hawkins, VP communications at CNN, to say the report “did not just fall short of (…)
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