According to the BBC , the president announced the death toll during a virtual meeting with former leaders and security chiefs on Friday.

Buhari was quoted as saying 51 civilians, 11 police officers, and seven soldiers had been killed in the unrest.

A statement released by Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, at the end of the meeting also quoted Buhari as saying it is unfortunate that the “initial genuine and well- intended protest of youths was hijacked and misdirected”.

According to the statement, the president said despite accepting the demands of the protesters, they refused to stop the demonstrations.

”Unfortunately, the protesters refused to call off the protest and engage the government to address their grievances. Instead, they became emboldened and gradually turned violent,” the president was quoted to have said.

Buhari maintained that the federal government will not fold its arms and allow “miscreants and criminals continue to perpetrate acts of hooliganism in the country”.

”We shall also continue to ensure that liberty and freedom, as well as the fundamental rights of all citizens are protected. Here, I want to also reaffirm our commitment to preserving the unity of this country,” the statement read.

“The President thanked the former Heads of
State for attending the meeting and their
invaluable comments, observations and advice,
adding that ‘Nigerians expect nothing less from
responsible statesmen’.

“Each of the former leaders commended President Buhari for steps taken so far to restore calm and order to the country and also applauded the presidential broadcast of Thursday as detailed and soothing to the country.

“The former heads of state were unanimous in their view that generation of employment and growing the economy, including through direct foreign investments, were critical to checking
youth restiveness.

“The former heads of state also condemned the divisive and inciting pronouncements of separatists and were of the opinion that such acts should be stopped.

“Equally, the former leaders commended the actions taken by governors to address the demands of the ENDSARS protesters and their efforts to check the excesses of those who perpetrated violent acts and conduct.

“Finally, they called on youths to pursue peaceful means in seeking redress through engagement with government, and encouraged further conversation with the youths and other stakeholders in the country.”

https://thecable.ng/buhari-69-persons-killed-in-endsars-protests

Smh in dismay

The government is to blame.
They succeeded in infiltrated a peaceful protest by hiring some thugs especially abokis to disrupt the protest.

They misdirected the goal of the protest and enable criminals to hijack the Anti-SARS movement.

The death toll is underreported. just yesterday i was at a scene where a guy and a woman was killed by bullet another fortunate girl got hit but she'll survive. People were busy trying to rush dem to the hospital, no one dared took a picture or video of the happenings.
Buhari unleash military war tanks in the streets of some Nigeria states when we're not at war.
He is the most useless president ever.

They paid touts to disrupt peaceful protest so they can kill innocent Nigerians.

Beware southerners. This is the time to know and understand the true identity of those who cause tribalism on here, they are paid agents, they are neither from east or west. They have more than twenty accounts, they would create tribal topics and make tribal comments with another accounts to cause chaos between southerners. Though, they have no conscience but you can try to educate them or better ignore them. They are easy to identify, use your head brothers.

Also Be aware that tactics and plans has been deployed to cover up the massacre since all their efforts to break southern unity were not fruitful. They have created a lot of Facebook and Twitter accounts with Yoruba or Igbo names for this purpose, one of them is to post pictures or video of people who debunked being killed, those pictures were scripted and earlier been circulated for this purpose. They would discredit real occurrence and give it another title and narratives. Be aware, they dominates this platform.