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Published 31 March 2021
US Department of States says it could not verify if #EndSARS protesters were killed on October 20, 2020 at the Lekki tollgate.
The US department made this known in a report tagged ‘2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Nigeria’.
A copy of the report was obtained by our correspondent on Tuesday.
The report said though soldiers fired ammunition into the air to disperse protesters, the number of fatalities could not be verified.
Part of the report read, “On October 20, members of the security forces enforced curfew by firing shots into the air to disperse protesters, who had gathered at the Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos to protest abusive practices by the Nigerian Police Force’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad.