WHERE ARE THE BODIES?
''As usual, they are only struggling to deceive people. But their spins on the Lekki incident shamefully disregard direct eye - witness accounts, video evidence, and the well known and oft - repeated brutish tendencies of the Army in previous encounters.
''As usual, they are only struggling to deceive people. But their spins on the Lekki incident shamefully disregard direct eye - witness accounts, video evidence, and the well known and oft - repeated brutish tendencies of the Army in previous encounters.
Clearly, it is an orchestrated effort to mask impunity, dishonour the dead, and mock the searing pain of grieving families!
But these ignoble spins ignore glaring contradictions and inconsistencies in the Army position. The Army claims its men were not at Lekki, but Brigadier
But these ignoble spins ignore glaring contradictions and inconsistencies in the Army position. The Army claims its men were not at Lekki, but Brigadier
- General Omata, in exonerating himself, said the Army was there, and even named the battalion the soldiers were deployed from, and also revealed the name of the officer that led them. Another version dubiously claims the Army only returned fire in self defence, and yet another
discordant and belated version claims the Army only fired empty shells!
One of the cardinal rules of evaluation of evidence is that when a party puts out two or more contradictory versions of the same event, the safest thing to do is to disbelieve both versions, and to believe
One of the cardinal rules of evaluation of evidence is that when a party puts out two or more contradictory versions of the same event, the safest thing to do is to disbelieve both versions, and to believe
the version put out by the opposing party, particularly, if that opposing version is consistent and accords with the natural course of events. And the natural course of events in this instance is that high caliber bullets, fired by the Army at such a mammoth crowd, and which
produced the horrific injuries we have seen on the protesters being treated in various hospitals in Lagos, would most likely have also killed some protesters.
Where are the bodies, they ask? They were simply carried away by the Army, according to eye witness accounts, so that
Where are the bodies, they ask? They were simply carried away by the Army, according to eye witness accounts, so that
people will ask the puerile questions they are asking now. We have seen pictures of those injured by bullets, but the scene of the shooting itself is without blood stains or blood spatters. If there were injuries, why was there no bloodstain left behind? Those who cleaned up the
blood stains also took away the bodies.
Did it not happen in Afara, Umuahia, and earlier in Zaria, only for a judicial inquiry to unearth 350 bodies in one mass grave in Zaria. Before then, the question was also: where are the bodies?''
-Kenneth Ikonne,SAN.
Did it not happen in Afara, Umuahia, and earlier in Zaria, only for a judicial inquiry to unearth 350 bodies in one mass grave in Zaria. Before then, the question was also: where are the bodies?''
-Kenneth Ikonne,SAN.
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