EndSARS: ‘There Can’t Be Peace Without Justice’–Aisha Yesufu Speaks On Lagos State White Paper

Popular Nigerian political activist, Aisha Yesufu has said that there can be no peace in the country when the government has failed to address the problem of injustice.

The activist made the remark on Arise Tv in response to issues raised in the White Paper released by the Lagos State Government.

The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on the #EndSARS protest which took place on October 20, 2020 had released a 309 pages report on findings about the alleged shooting at the Lekki Toll Gate which led to death of some protesters.

But the Federal Government had denied wrong doings with the Minister of Information Lai Mohammed labelling the Lagos panel report as “tales by moonlight.”

Mohammed had also described the use of ‘massacre’ by the panel to describe the incident at the tollgate on October 20 as unacceptable.

Although the Lagos State Government faulted some aspect of the report, the State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, invited Folarin Falana (Falz), Debo Adebayo (Mr. Marcaroni), Dele Farotimi, Temitope Majekodunmi, Segun Awosanya (Segalinks), Adedotun (Just Detoun), Seun Kuti, Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu and Commander of Rapid Response Squad (RRS), CSP Yinka Egbeyemi and others to join him in the “historic” march.

But the 46-year-old activist who actively participated in the ‘Bring Back Our Girls’ campaign accused both Lagos State and Federal Government of lying.

She also  alleged that the government wanted the panel to  support their narrative.
 

She said, “It is very easy for the governor to talk about harmony, peace and not talk about justice because he hasn’t lost any loved one. The people who have lost their loved ones, who are mourning, and who are still mourning, what is the most painful when you lose a loved one, is the government is actually trying to gaslight and deny that your loved ones ever existed.

“I have gone through this back in our movement with the Chibok parent where the government said they were no adoption I remember one of the mothers would  ask in 2014.

“Whenever she hears that people say that the Chibok girls’ adoption never happened. So I am pretty sure the families of the victims of killings in Lagos  will be wondering is it that their loved ones never existed.

 “It is totally shameful, this issue of the governor alluding that they are  hoodlums who came out and took over the protest and all of that, no there are not hoodlums, the governor is number one hoodlums  in Lagos, and he brought in his fellow hoodlums to come and attack the peaceful protesters.”