BREAKING: LCC Contradicts Gov Sanwo-Olu, Says CCTV Cameras Didn’t Capture Lekki Shooting

The Lekki Concession Company (LCC) has told the Lagos State panel investigating the Lekki toll gate shooting incident that its cameras stopped working moments after soldiers arrived at the location on October 20, 2020, hence did not capture the shooting incident.

This account was submitted by the Managing Director of the LCC, Abayomi Omomuwa, during his appearance before the panel on Tuesday.

“The surveillance camera didn’t capture the shooting. It stopped recording around 8pm,” Omamuwasan told the panel.

THE WHISTLER had reported that the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, had promised that the LCC would make footage of the shooting available to the panel.

Sanwo-Olu had told CNN’s Becky Anderson that footage obtained from the CCTV cameras installed at the Lekki toll gate showed that Nigerian soldiers were at the scene of the shooting of unarmed #EndSARS protesters.

“From the footage that we could see, it seems to be…there would be men in military uniform, who should be Nigerian Army or something,” Sanwo-Olu said, adding that, “Yes, they were there. That’s what the footage shows,” after the anchor pressurized him further to reveal those behind the shooting incident.

THE WHISTLER also recalls that the Nigerian Army had days after denying the presence of soliders at the scene, admitted that its soliders were present at the Lekki toll gate.

The army had also accused Governor Sanwo-Olu of inviting soliders to the Lekki toll gate to quell the #EndSARS protest.

“The decision to call in the military was taken by the Lagos State Government after a 24 hours curfew was imposed.

“This was as a result of the violence which led to several police stations being burnt, policemen killed, suspects in police custody released and weapons carted away.

“The situation was fast degenerating into anarchy. It was at this point that LASG requested for the military to intervene in order to restore normalcy,” the spokesperson of the 81 Division of the Nigerian Army, Major Osoba Olaniyi, had said.