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Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) Chief pathologist, Dr John Obafunwa, on Saturday told the Lagos State Judicial Panel probing police brutality that it received three corpses said to be from the Lekki Tollgate incident of October 20, 2020. Obafunwa told the panel that the trio was part of the 99 corpses that the hospital received from different parts of Lagos and on which it did autopsies during and after the #EndSARS protest.

The Professor of Medicine, anatomic and forensic pathologist as well as Head of Department, Morbid Anatomy at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital College of Medicine (LASUTHCOM), said the 99 corpses were recorded between October 19 and 24, 2020.

Obafunwa’s testimony followed his invitation by the panel chairman, Justice Doris Okuwobi (rtd) to assist the panel in its investigation of the Lekki Tollgate incident. No fewer than 14 petitioners have accused the Nigerian Army and Policemen of shooting several protesters dead and injuring several others during the #EndSARS protests against police brutality.

The army, which entered a defence denying the allegation, failed to honour subsequent summons requiring it to respond to further questions by petitioners.

Obafunwa spoke while being cross-examined by some of the #EndSARS protesters’ counsel, Mr Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika, SAN. He presented the autopsy reports and pictures of three bodies from Lekki to the panel, showing different degrees of injuries.

“Those are the three bodies I was told were from Lekki as recorded by the people who brought them in,” he said. But Fusika disputed the testimony, arguing that the number of dead protesters from Lekki was higher.

He said: “I want to prove to this panel that the claim that only three dead bodies were brought in from Lekki is not true.” Fusika requested that the Chief Coroner be ordered to produce records of the 99 cases to the panel, including autopsy reports.

“Since he was told that only those three are from Lekki, he might have been told the wrong thing,” Fusika added. But Obafunwa explained that the bodies were deposited by the Lagos State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit (SEHMU), an agency in charge of recovering dead bodies.

“I don’t go about scavenging for dead bodies. It is when they are brought in that we are told and it is recorded where they were taken from,” he added.

The Chief Pathologist said according to their records, the bodies were recovered from different parts of Lagos including Ikorodu, Lagos Mainland, Yaba, Mushin and others.

Granting his request, Justice Okuwobi ruled that the chief pathologist should produce the records at the next adjourned date. However, she said autopsy reports would not be required as that would expand the work of the panel beyond the terms of reference.

The matter was adjourned till June 19.

But Obafunwa explained that the bodies were deposited by the Lagos State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit (SEHMU), an agency in charge of recovering dead bodies.

Since this does not suit our narrative, let's show Dr John Obafunwa the full length of our tongues. I suggest we insult Dr John Obafunwa down to his forefathers.

After that, we continue singing what we preferred the finding should be so that we can have basis for removing Buhari from his office on social media.

Ipob pigs are braindead animals.

Mynd44, seun, lalasticlala, you guys should please stop taking twitter news like this to the front page. In fact, it should be deleted completely from our darling forum

Don't make the mistake of Jack. You can see he is still busy deleting millions of tweets he should have long ago. If Government ban nairaland, where do you want to start deleting from?

Simplyleo:
Since this does not suit our narrative, let's show Dr John Obafunwa the full length of our tongues. I suggest we insult Dr John Obafunwa down to his forefathers.

After that, we continue singing what we preferred the finding should be so that we can have basis for removing Buhari from his office on social media.

Ipob pigs are braindead animals.

Aswearugad

Ipob in pain. They will accuse the pathologist of collecting money from Buhari or been threatened by DSS. This useless animals will continue fighting Buhari but they will definitely fail.
God bless Buhari
God bless Nigeria
More deaths to ipob terrorists.

Simplyleo:
Since this does not suit our narrative, let's show Dr John Obafunwa the full length of our tongues. I suggest we insult Dr John Obafunwa down to his forefathers.

After that, we continue singing what we preferred the finding should be so that we can have basis for removing Buhari from his office on social media.

Ipob pigs are braindead animals.

IPOB this, IPOB that. You no dey tire? Don't you think you're overworking yourself for this meagre 30k? Why have you chosen to let IPOB live rent free in your shallow brain.
What concerns this with IPOB?
Lagos is a Yoruba land and it is likely that a greater percentage of those killed there were Yorubas. It is neither IPOB nor Igbo.

99 is small na, the Government and International communities will take Lekki massacre if it surpass Benue Massacre.

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Kingosytex:
IPOB this, IPOB that. You no dey tire? Don't you think you're overworking yourself for this meagre 30k? Why have you chosen to let IPOB live rent free in your shallow brain.
What concerns this with IPOB?
Lagos is a Yoruba land and it is likely that a greater percentage of those killed there were Yorubas. It is neither IPOB nor Igbo.

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Is it your tire?

Is it your overworking?

Is it your meagre 30k?

So the soldiers that shot sporadically at the unarmed protesters only managed to initiate three deaths, it seems that thousands of the other protesters possessed some magical powers that repelled the bullets.
This pathological results is some how. I think it has been compromised.
I fear who no fear Naija 'Gunment'

Only 3

Human lives...only?

Anyway only you support those that carried out Lekki killings will die

Yes, Only you