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[ICYMI] INVESTIGATION: Bullets, Blood & Death: Untold Story of what happened at Lekki Toll Gate

In this expose, Premium Times put paid to the lie of @jidesanwoolu and the @HQNigerianArmy and paid spin doctors.

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The Lekki Shooting: Checking the facts

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Piecing together details of on-the-ground reporting, credible information posted online by citizens, accounts by witnesses and victims as well as information obtained from top military sources, PREMIUM TIMES can now paint a clearer picture of what happened at the #LekkiTollGate.

The newspaper’s investigative team set out to unravel what actually happened on the evening of the shooting and the hours that followed. #EndSARS

The newspaper’s investigative team set out to unravel what actually happened on the evening of the shooting and the hours that followed. #EndSARS tinyurl.com/y65zj2ca

As this medium gathered evidence for this investigation, Sodiq Adeoye, an employee of research firm @sbmintelligence, informed one of our reporters after the shooting that some residents of Admiralty Way, #Lekki Phase 1...

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[VIDEO] ...a highbrow neighbourhood, about two kilometres from the #Lekki Toll Gate, found a body floating in the lagoon just behind their houses. #EndSARS

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Mr Adeoyo said the residents suspected the floating body could be one of the protesters fired upon by soldiers and alleged by witnesses to have been carried. #EndSARS

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On this newspaper’s request, Mr Adeoye sent a brief time-stamped video of the corpse floating in the water. A @googlemaps coordinate he sent indicated that the body was floating close to Bay Lounge, an upscale restaurant. tinyurl.com/y65zj2ca

At around 6 a.m on Saturday, accompanied by a friend, Deji Ashiru, this reporter drove to the Nigerian Army Post Exchange (NAPEX) Car Park Jetty in Victoria Island, where he and his team hired a boat to search for the body. #EndSARS

As the boat approached the bank of the lagoon, behind the imposing Oriental Hotel, the reporter saw a shanty ahead. The shanty is on the left side of the Lekki Toll Gate if one was travelling from Victoria Island. #EndSARS

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[VIDEO] Due to its proximity to the toll gate, it immediately occurred to the reporter that residents of the community might have witnessed things that happened during the crackdown that was not yet in the public domain. His instinct was right. #EndSARS

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He told the driver of the boat to stop his team at the shanty.

It seems the residents had been waiting for someone to tell the stories of what they saw on the evening of the shooting because team members had hardly introduced themselves or even disembarked from the boat when they started recounting gruesome details about the evening.

VIDEO: The residents, some of whom suffered bullet wounds and other injuries, during the shooting, alleged that several people were killed and injured by the soldiers. #EndSARS

They also corroborated the story told by DJ Switch and other protesters that after the shooting soldiers took bodies of those killed away. #EndSARS

When asked if the protesters were killed and whether they saw soldiers (@HQNigerianArmy) carry bodies away, one of the residents said: “Of course, everyone saw it. Those that were present saw it. #EndSARS tinyurl.com/y65zj2ca

Ray, who expressed displeasure that President @MBuhari did not mention the Lekki shooting in his broadcast to the nation a couple of days ago, said Mr @jidesanwoolu visited the scene of the shooting in the early hours of Wednesday and saw some of the dead.
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[VIDEO] “Why is @jidesanwoolu denying? Because immediately after when that thing happened Sanwo-Olu himself came. He came. He parked at the toll gate. He saw some dead bodies on the ground. Why is he denying,” he asked. #EndSARS

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The residents also alleged that after the soldiers (@HQNigerianArmy) who initially opened fire on the protesters left the scene, police officers led by Raji Ganiyu, a chief superintendent of the police, and...

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...the Divisional @PoliceNG Officer of the nearby Maroko Division, arrived the scene and continued the attack on defiant protesters who stood their ground despite the military (@HQNigerianArmy) attack. #EndSARS

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