“A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots.”—Mark Twain.
By Folorunso Fatai Adisa

The Yoruba submission that, “Ti iro na lo l’Ogun odun, Ojokan ni otito yio ba”, which can be loosely translated as “ regardless of how fast a lie travels, the truth will outpace it in a microsecond” aptly encapsulates the morbid incidence that took place at the Lekki Tollgate ENDSARS protest in October 20,2020.

The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and Other Matters (Lagos EndSARS Panel) has reported the Lekki Tollgate shootings of October 20, 2020 as a massacre.

According to the Panel’s report, “It was corroborated that the soldiers had their vans parked at the Lekki Toll Gate and removed as many bodies and corpses of the fallen protesters which they took away with their vans.”


When the report of the Panel surfaced, it was the great Hannah Arendt’s “Truth and Politics” that came to my mind. Fact is felt to be anti-political. From the viewpoint of politics, truth has a despotic character. It is rigid.

Consequently, it is hated by tyrants, who rightly fear the competition of coercive force they cannot monopolize…
Incontestably, truth-tellers— like DJ Switch, Mr Macaroni and other youths— exist outside the realm of politics. They are pariahs, and like Socrates subject to exile and death. Lies have always been seen as necessary and appropriate tools for political advantage.

Truthfulness is not among political virtues; but lies lead the pack of the attributes that can be found in the political realm. Factual truths are more likely to die by power than discoveries, theories or axioms of science because facts and events are more fragile than axioms. The opposite of a true statement is either error or ignorance which steeped in opinion.

Notably, deliberate falsehood requires the presence of factual statements to thrive as organised lying is the most vicious weapon against truth. The conflict between truth and politics arose out of the life of the philosopher and the way of life of the citizen. Hannah states that the opposite of truth was mere opinion, which was equated with illusion and it is the degradation of opinion that gave the conflict its political poignancy: for opinion, and not truth, is among the essential requirements of all power— little wonder many “opinionists” who are extremely in love with “the government” aired opinions, during the Lekki ENDSARS massacre, in support of the government.

As James Madison said, “All governments rest on opinion”, Governments and/or political power derives power and thrives on the support—opinions— of those who are like-minded. And that’s Arednt’s argument: truth and politics do not share a common ground as politics thrives on lies and opinions. They, first, lied there were no shootings; they continued that no one was killed. But now it has been established that it was a pogrom against the youths.

For the Lekki massacre, the truth has unclothed the lies. For the deceased and the youths , it is a well deserved victory. And those who are involved in the dastardly acts should be brought to book including lie Mohammed.
https://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2021/11/16/lekki-pogrom-the-government-lied/

According to the Panel’s report, “It was corroborated that the soldiers had their vans parked at the Lekki Toll Gate and removed as many bodies and corpses of the fallen protesters which they took away with their vans.”.. there was a country

It is well

And it shall be well with the youths.

If na you... Will you say the Truth?

It was well coordinated. Their aim was hatched and well achieved; " kill them and remove their bodies"!!! Then send the most notorious, and well known in the business of lying b4 international medias to keep asking " where are the bodies of the dead if there was a massacre?".

We will never forget, won't forget the day the Nigeria govt deliberately murdered her youths.
20/10/20

E no go better for lie Mohammed and Buhari

Fake News


The report is Fake and unsigned

Here is Nathaniel Solomon who was no 46 on that useless fake list and listed as dead at Lekki Toll gate granting Punch Newspaper an Interview on 11 Sep 2021

https://punchng.com/video-i-fainte

The report is fake

Check page 304 it listed only Abuta Solomon as a Fatality at Lekki Toll gate and his brother Nathaniel was awarded N25 Million

That same Nathaniel Solomon was then listed In number 46 of the fake report list as dead at Lekki Toll Gate

This is evidence that there was deliberate Misinformation over Lekki Toll gate

There was no massacre at Lekki

Christistruth00:
Fake News


The report is Fake and unsigned

Here is Nathaniel Solomon who was no 46 on that useless fake list and listed as dead at Lekki Toll gate granting Punch Newspaper an Interview on 11 Sep 2021

https://punchng.com/video-i-fainte

The report is fake

Check page 304 it listed only Abuta Solomon as a Fatality at Lekki Toll gate and his brother Nathaniel was awarded N25 Million

That same Nathaniel Solomon was then listed In number 46 of the fake report list as dead at Lekki Toll Gate

This is evidence that there was deliberate Misinformation over Lekki Toll gate

There was no massacre at Lekki

Well the report has established that 9 people were killed at Lekki by the Army.

You Buharists should realize that we are criticising you not to bring your man down but to make his government better

At the very least the report should spur reforms in the way the armed forces are run in this country and people should be punished

Is it too much to ask?

backbencher:


Well the report has established that 9 people were killed at Lekki by the Army.

You Buharists should realize that we are criticising you not to bring your man down but to make his government better

At the very least the report should spur reforms in the way the armed forces are run in this country and people should be punished

Is it too much to ask?

Nathaniel Solomon has resurrected and is alive.

He was no 46 and was listed as dead at Lekki


Please remember that Police were murdered and Some tried to destroy Lagos because of the fake Lekki Massacre

Christistruth00:


Nathaniel Solomon has resurrected and is alive.

He was no 46 and was listed as dead at Lekki


Please remember that Police were murdered and Some tried to destroy Lagos because of the fake Lekki Massacre

Yes and all that happened because the APC government ignored the structural issues that led to the endsars protest in the first place

Christistruth00:
Fake News


The report is Fake and unsigned

Here is Nathaniel Solomon who was no 46 on that useless fake list and listed as dead at Lekki Toll gate granting Punch Newspaper an Interview on 11 Sep 2021

https://punchng.com/video-i-fainte

The report is fake

Check page 304 it listed only Abuta Solomon as a Fatality at Lekki Toll gate and his brother Nathaniel was awarded N25 Million

That same Nathaniel Solomon was then listed In number 46 of the fake report list as dead at Lekki Toll Gate

This is evidence that there was deliberate Misinformation over Lekki Toll gate

There was no massacre at Lekki

I guess this didn't happen either, right?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Zaria_massacre

https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/12/22/nigeria-army-attack-shia-unjustified