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And the army keeps denying any part in the shooting. |
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By Oluwakemi Adelagun Two witnesses on Saturday narrated before the panel on police brutality in Lagos how soldiers shot at protesters at the Lekki Toll Plaza on October 20 last year and “carried lifeless bodies” into their van. The protesters were calling for an end to police brutality when they were attacked by soldiers at the toll gate. Olamilekan Sanusi, who appeared before the panel, said he was part of those who volunteered to clean the protest ground, especially the stage area. He said he counted “at least 10 bodies after the gunshots”. Mr Sanusi said that at about 6:30 p.m., he heard gunshots and saw people running towards Oriental Hotel. “I saw men of the Nigerian army. Later when they said we should sit on the floor, I saw a military man and I saw protesters carrying lifeless bodies to the military men’s feet,” he said. “Later on, I counted ten people at the feet of the military men, they were not moving, they were lifeless. Later on, I saw them carrying people close to Diamond Bank, they were packing bodies and putting them in the van,” he said. Mr Sanusi said an officer, who said he was acting on a directive of “power beyond him,” came on the stage and pleaded with the protesters to go home. He also said the officer requested that they nominate five representatives among themselves to discuss with him but they turned him down. “After coming down from the stage, I think he left and the shootings began again,” he said. “Then three military men came to the stage, destroying things, scattering mixers, poles and speakers, then they pushed some speakers on me. I fell, I could not move but I could hear what people were talking. “I heard one woman crying, and saying, ‘you must not die,’ I could hear a car on motion and I was trying to open my eye, I saw the woman in blue, drenched in blood holding a man and saying ‘you must not die.’ “I woke up at a military hospital and was later referred to Marina General hospital. The person that brought me there told me that six protesters were in the hospital and I was in a coma for seven hours.” Mr Sanusi said that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu visited them at the hospital and gave them N10,000 each, and he used his to get drugs and clothes. “The doctor had to beg me to sit on the chair with my drip because many protesters were still coming. More than 11 people died in the hospital and some were laid on the floor. In the toilet there was blood everywhere,” he said. Mr Sanusi said that one of the nurses advised him to leave because the soldiers were coming to “finish protesters in the hospital.” “I sneaked out of the hospital using the small entrance door leading to the governor’s road.” Mr Sanusi told the panel he wants the Lekki Tollgate to be dedicated to those who were allegedly killed by the Nigerian Army on October 20 2020. “I want the panel to find those who ordered the shooting and I want the tollgate to be a memorial ground,” he said. The chair of the panel, Doris Okuwobi, admitted the X-ray evidence of Mr Sanusi and marked it exhibit A. ‘Shot in the chest’ Another witness, Ifeanyi Agbeeze, told the panel he had been living in pains after he was shot “in the chest” by a soldier during the October 20 shooting. Mr Agbeeze, a comedian, said himself and his friend had earlier left the protest ground on October 20 but returned after they were unable to get a bus home. “We got back to the tollgate around past 1 p.m. Around 2 p.m., we heard that the Lagos government have declared a curfew,” he said. Around past 4 p.m., I saw two men removing the CCTV camera, I don’t know why. Later the billboard light went off, I felt something bad was going to happen but I couldn’t figure what exactly it was,” said Mr Agbeeze. “Around 6:45 p.m., I heard siren along Sandfill, a van coming, I moved closer to the stage, I saw the military van, I thought they were coming to calm us. “Somebody announced that everyone with cars should turn on their car headlights and face the stage because the light was already off. And we were instructed too not to insult anybody and not be violent. “When we heard the siren, they said we should come to the stage and sit on the floor.” Mr Agbeeze said when the shooting began, “someone beside him was shot and when he tried to help him a military man dressed in full military man shot me in my chest.” “I immediately ran then I discovered that everywhere was dark and asked myself where am I running to?” He said that one of the protesters took him to Marina General Hospital where he was later referred to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH). “They did X-ray for me and their boss came gave the film to me. The doctors asked me if I had gotten through with my people. “I was in LASUTH for six days and when I was discharged, I was still feeling much pain, I told the doctor that I don’t feel okay, so, I didn’t leave the hospital that very day.” He said that he had to leave the hospital when he got information that some “soldiers were going around to finish off protesters in hospitals.” Mr Agbeeze said after he left LASUTH, he went to a private hospital and on December 29, he did another x-ray which showed he had a fracture. “Since then, till now, I still feel the pain I went for another x-ray on May 18, 2021,” he said. “He (the doctor) also asked me to go and do a CT scan but it is expensive, I don’t have the money yet. “I want justice, I want to know who ordered the shooting.” The army had initially denied taking live bullets to the protest ground. But after changing its testimony several times, it eventually admitted it indeed took live bullets to the scene but only engaged armed miscreants. https://i1.wp.com/media.premiumtimesng.com/wp-content/files/2021/05/1-20210508_135527.jpg The panel members https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/463226-lekki-toll-plaza-witness-narrates-how-soldiers-packed-lifeless-bodies-into-vans.html |
Buhari is a scam |
Lage Raho Munna Bhai 10/10 A very healthy, hilarious and positive movie. Good mooorning mumbai! |
francisgodstime:This mount you people keep crucifying, according to some PL commentators he has been chelsea's best player so far this season pound for pound, and these are experts in the game that i believe know better. |
Congratulation atletico madrid. Next yr is another triumphant victory |
georgen2u:I heard a Russian invented sth like this but it never worked because of the Earth's atmosphere. |
Appointment without screening. Welcome to federal republic of northgeria |
If a man says he is against theft, why is he supporting his neighbour to steal? By Premium Times Mahamat Idriss Deby , 37, bedecked in the military fatigue of a four star general, spotting a red beret and some decoration on his chest, was seen at the Nigeria Aso Rock Presidential Villa on Friday, May 14. He had at least two other four star generals in similar fatigue, red and blue berets, which announced in unmistakable terms that this is the military dictator of another unfortunate African country. The non- condemnation, non-rejection, or the acceptance of his coup by so called democracies, is a testimony to the fact that coups are not out of fashion, out dated or unacceptable in the world. If anything, it is a confirmation that a coup in Africa is welcome if it fits into the agenda of the beholder. Not even in the mad seasons of Nigeria coup plotting and subversion of professionalism would a 26-year old have become a general, as is the case of Mahamat, who was seven when his father overthrew the Chadian government and within nineteen years, he had gone through formal education, military training and become a general! The senior Deby died on Tuesday, April 19, reportedly of gunshot wounds sustained in a fight with rebels. But rather than allow the Speaker of the National Assembly, Haroun Kabadi, to act as President for 40 days, while fresh elections are held in accordance with the constitution, Mahamat executed a coup sacking the government, dissolving parliament and suspending the constitution. When Chadians protested against the coup, they were killed, injured or detained. Those like overlord France and big neighbour Nigeria that should condemn the coup, insist on the supremacy of the constitution, stand by democracy and caution the coup plotters against killing protesters, supported the plotters. French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, whose country will never allow an unconstitutional take over in its territory, justified the coup, citing a so-called needed stability and security in the country. He claimed the overthrow of democracy in Chad was logical because: “There are exceptional circumstances.” In a dishonest rendering of events, Le Drian said: “Logically, it should be Mr Kabadi…but he refused because of the exceptional security reasons that were needed to ensure the stability of this country.” What choice did the Speaker have with guns trained on him? Nigerian Foreign Minister, Geoffrey Jideofor Onyeama, in justifying the coup said Nigeria does not want a power vacuum. To solidify military rule in Chad, President Muhammadu Buhari rolled out the red carpet for the coup plotters. He told them: “We are bound together by culture and geography, and we will help in all ways we can.” He did not ask them to stop killing those protesting against the coup or bring the killers to justice. Rather, he told them: “We will also help you to ensure a smooth transition in 18 months, as you have promised your people.” For those of us who fought gruelling and bloody battles against military rule on Nigeria streets, and ensured the return of civilian governance, from which Buhari is benefitting, the image of a so- called African Head of State in military fatigue, sitting under our country’s Coat of Arms in the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, is a disgusting and disturbing image. We had thought that Africa had gone beyond such criminality. But young Deby’s presence, pounding the floors of the hallowed chambers of Nigeria’s Presidency in military boots, is a sad reminder that coups are not a thing of the past. It also gives the impression that while Nigeria’s democratic physique is civil, its soul is military. So, even if the chameleon changes its colours, it does not change its essence. It is interesting that apart from the constitution forbidding the non- democratic seizure of power, the Nigerian government and military have been shouting themselves hoarse against any coup. On December 5, 2020, the then Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Yusuf Buratai, declared, while decorating 39 newly promoted Major Generals, that: “Democracy has come to stay. We will not tolerate any agent of destabilisation. The years of military misadventure in politics have never carried us anywhere. It is over.” He warned the new Generals: “Do not hobnob with politicians. At this rank of two star Generals, do not lobby for appointment. If you want to lobby for appointment, lobby the Chief of Army Staff and you can only do this through hard work, discipline and loyalty. The crop of officers (39 Major Generals) decorated yesterday will never be dragged into any interest that is contrary to the sustenance of democracy in our nation. All our eyes are on you. We know there are several moves to get your attention. You must make sure that whatever you are doing, and when some persons approach you, you must act within the confines of the constitution.” In the face of the deteriorating security situation in the country and general unease, the Nigerian secret services, the Department of State Services (DSS), on Sunday, May 2, raised a red flag against any attempt to force an unconstitutional change in the country. As if on cue, the next day, the Nigerian Armed Forces issued a statement firmly rejecting any unconstitutional change of government. It said: “We categorically declare that the Armed Forces of Nigeria remain totally committed to the current administration, as well as all the democratic institutions associated with it.” The statement further declared that: “We will continue to remain apolitical, subordinate to the civilian authority, firmly loyal to the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari and the 1999 Constitution as amended.” The Presidency followed up these declarations by claiming there are Nigerians who want to force a change in the country. The Presidency, in a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, claimed that: “The agent provocateurs hope to achieve through artifice and sleight of hands, what they failed to do through the ballot box in the 2019 elections. Nigerians have opted for democratic rule, and the only acceptable way to change a democratically elected government is through elections, which hold at prescribed times in the country. Any other way is patently illegal and even treasonable. Of course, such would attract the necessary consequences.” So, if the Nigerian government is so firmly against coups, why is it supporting and encouraging the coup in Chad? If a man says he is against theft, why is he supporting his neighbour to steal? For some African leaders, while coups are forbidden dishes, there is nothing wrong in sniffing them or enjoying their aroma, provided they are cooked in other shores. They are like chichidodo, the neat, clean bird which hates excrement but feeds on maggots growing in the lavatory or excess dog faeces. https://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/462992-the-beatification-of-a-coup-plotter-by-owei-lakemfa.html |
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Just imagine. And parents will be paying through their nose to these schools |
no matter the circumstancess, sex is supposed to free in marriage. I cannot pay bride price and be starving |
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