Fiery lawyer and human rights activist, Femi Falana, has lashed out at Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, calling him an executive rascal following his comments on the #EndSARS report published by the Lagos State Judicial Panel.

Mohammed had criticized and picked holes in the report which was submitted to the Lagos State Governor last week, claiming it was fake and riddled with discrepancies.

However, Falana, in a statement titled “FG Is Not Competent To Reject The Report Of Okuwobi Judicial Commission Of Inquiry,” responded to the Minister’s comments over the lack of originality of the report, accusing the Minister of “executive rascality”.

The statement also accused Mohammed of arrogance due to his dismissal of a panel approved and constituted by the Federal and State Governments in the wake of the protests in 2020.

“On November 18, 2021, President Muhammadu Buhari held a meeting in Abuja with Mr. Anthony Blinken, the United States Secretary of State.

“During the meeting, President Buhari said that the state governments in the country would have to take steps on the reports of their panels before the Federal Government acts on the recommendations.

“In particular, the President said, “We at the federal have to wait for the steps taken by the states, and we have to allow the system to work.

“We can’t impose ideas on them. Federal Government has to wait for the reaction of the states.

“But in an utter display of executive rascality, Mr Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information has overruled the President by rejecting the report of the Lagos Panel on behalf of the Federal Government.

By not waiting “for the reaction of the states,” the Minister has overruled the President of the Republic.,” Falana railed.

Falana also accused Lai of repeating “the jaundiced views of a couple of aggrieved individuals. The two individuals have tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to discredit the findings and recommendations of the body.

“In a desperate attempt to mislead the Governor, both aggrieved persons have been campaigning for the total rejection of the report because of the so-called discrepancies and inconsistencies contained in the document.

No doubt, these individuals are entitled to express their opinions on the report of the Commission. But the call for the rejection of the report is illegal in every material...

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Mr Femi Falana said:

“In a desperate attempt to mislead the Governor, both aggrieved persons have been campaigning for the total rejection of the report because of the so-called discrepancies and inconsistencies contained in the document."

And FG said:

v) - The panel was silent on the family members of those reportedly killed, merely insinuating they were afraid to testify. Even goats have owners who will look for them if they do not return home, not to talk of human beings. Where are the family members
of those who were reportedly killed at Lekki Toll Gate? If the panel is recommending compensation for the families, what are their identities and addresses? Who will receive the compensations when no family members have shown up to date?

vi) - How did a man who reported seeing the lifeless body of his brother himself ended up being on the list of the panel's deceased persons?

vii) - How can a Judicial Panel convince anyone that the names of some casualties of the Lekki Toll Gate incident listed as numbers 3 (Jide), 42 (Tola) and 43 (Wisdom) are not fictitious names.



Dear Mr Falana, these are not so-called discrepancies, they are outright falsehoods!
Who is that parent whose child will be killed by soldiers and will keep quiet? Is such a person worthy to be a parent? That's why there's so much doubt and question marks about the integrity of the whole report.

I expect Mr Falana to encourage the white paper committee members to address these material concerns. Or is it that he doesn't see anything wrong with paying the taxpayers money to a Nathaniel Solomon who is alive and well yet declared dead in the Lekkilies EndSars report? Or is it morally right and no longer a criminal offence to lie on oath? If you want to come to equity, you come with clean hands.

He is earning his pay

lying mohammed

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Lol