The Lagos State Government is seeking to field two expert witnesses to debunk claims that it had a hand in the military’s alleged shooting and/or killing of #EndSARS’ protesters at the Lekki Tollgate Plaza on last year October 22.
Mr Abiodun Owonikoko, SAN, the Lagos counsell on Saturday sought permission for the witnesses from the Lagos judicial panel probing police brutality and the Lekki Tollgate shootings. Owonikoko’s oral application, if granted, would enable both experts to give evidence on all the Lekki tollgate plaza incident petitions together. There are no fewer than 14 petitions relating to the shooting incident, out of the 235 petitions received by the panel between October and December 2020. Counsel for the Lekki Concession Company (LCC) which operates the plaza, Mr Rotimi Seriki, aligned himself with Owonikoko’s prayer. Serikialso applied to the panel to allow the LCC present a uniform response to all the Lekki tollgate incident petitions. But the counsel to some of the #EndSARS protest victims, Mr Adeshina Ogunlana, opposed the applications.
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