Brig. Gen. Ahmed Taiwo the Commander of 81 Military Intelligence Brigade , Victoria Island , Lagos, says the Nigerian Army were unhappy after the Lagos state Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo- Olu, denied inviting the military to the Lekki tollgate where #EndSARS protesters were gathered on October 20, 2020 where it was recorded that soldiers shot at the protesters.
Taiwo disclosed this on Saturday in his testimony before the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry probing the Lekki incident .
The general, however, said the best decision the Lagos governor could have made was inviting the military as the #EndSARS protest plunged the state into anarchy but added that the Army was also unhappy that Sanwo- Olu said two persons died from the military engagement at the Lekki tollgate.
He said , “ I spoke with the governor and said the Army was unhappy that he said he did not ask for Army’s intervention but I am sure that after you watched everything (video footages), you saw he had more than enough grounds to ask for Army’s intervention; perhaps it was the way everything went.”
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But the Army Headquarters afterward said in a statement that the Lagos State government invited the soldiers to the protest ground and that the soldiers acted within the rules of engagement .
Since the incident at the Lekki toll gate the Lagos governor has been under fire which has been condemned by local and international civil rights organisations.
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