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Published 30 May 2021
JESUSEGUN ALAGBE analyses the dichotomy between the government’s handling of peaceful citizens and insurgents terrorising the country
Fifteen days after bandits stormed Greenfield University in Kaduna State and abducted 23 students, a tweet by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), erupted anger on social media, leaving many with the question: did the President really mean it when he earlier said his regime would go hard on bandits and other insurgents terrorising the country?
The tweet, posted on May 5, was after the bandits had killed five of the abducted students and threatened to kill more if the government refused to pay a ransom of N100m.
Adegboruwa stated this in reaction to a statement by Joe Igbokwe, a member of the Lagos State Executive Council as Special Adviser to the Governor, who dismissed claims that there were killings at the Lekki Toll Gate during the protest.
Published 27 May 2021
A member of the Lagos State Panel on SARS Related Abuses, Ebun Adegboruwa, has clarified that the panel is yet to make any finding on the Lekki tollgate incident of October 20, 2020, where #EndSARS protesters were shot and reportedly killed.
He said this while reacting to a
Facebook post by Joe Igbokwe, the Special Adviser to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, claiming that the panel made a finding that nobody died from the Lekki Toll Gate incident.
According to Adegboruwa, if people were killed at Lekki Toll Gate on October 20, 2020, the panel will make it known regardless of the consequence.
In a statement titled, ‘Lagos Judicial Panel on SARS Related Abuses has not made any finding on Lekki tollgate incidence’, the senior advocate described