Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, says the leaked report of the Lagos State panel was fake and a tale by the moonlight.
Speaking at a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday, he said that no one was killed at the Lekki Toll Gate on October 20, 2020.
A leaked report by the nine-man panel established that at least nine persons were killed at the Lekki toll plaza when soldiers and policemen stormed the scene to disperse protesters on October 20, 2020.
However, Mohammed described the allegations as “tales by moonlight”.
“Without mincing words, never in the history of any judicial panel in Nigeria has a report been so riddled with discrepancies and conclusions that are not backed up [with facts].
“It was a phantom massacre. The report in circulation cannot be relied upon. The leakage of an unsigned report to the public is not enough.
“There is absolutely nothing in the report, circulating, to change our mind that there was a massacre at the Lekki tollgate,” Lai said.
