A testimony by Dr. Babajide Lawson, a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at Reddington Hospital, Lagos on the Lekki incidence as quoted in the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry report has been found to be altered in a re-presentation by the panel, PRNigeria can confirm.

Days after the report found its way to the public domain, it has continued to generate heated debates with more loopholes and irreconcilable submissions coming to bare.

On page 67 of the report, the witness (Dr Lawson) confirmed that there were several people that presented on the 21st with all manner of complaints of body injuries like cuts and bruises/injuries which most of them alleged were sustained at Lekki Toll Gate. He stated that it was not possible to confirm where the injuries occurred at the time. He also stated that some of the patients who presented only required basic dressing of their wounds.

“The witness (Dr Lawson) confirmed that one Amako Francis also presented on 21st October, 2020 with a knife stab wound or a wound from a sharp object, as opposed to a gunshot injury. He also confirmed that the patient was not treated after the 21st of October, 2020.

The witness also confirmed that a patient named Bright Osarehemen presented on the 22nd of October, 2020 with a gunshot injury of six (6) hours duration after the incident. He explained that the patient was injured on the day of presentation. He indicated that it was unlikely that the instant patient could have been a victim of the incident which occurred at the Lekki toll gate on the 20th of October, 2020.

However, in re-presenting Lawson on page 301 of the same report, the panel said it, “finds that the testimony of Dr. Babajide Lawson of Reddington Hospital as to the nature of treatment offered victims of the Lekki Toll Gate Incident in relation to gunshot wounds which were high velocity ‘entry and exit’, all indicate injuries from military weapons, consistent with the bullet shells recovered by the Panel during its visit and the witnesses that testified before the Panel.”

Meanwhile, in the entire report, there was nowhere Dr. Lawson mentioned ‘military weapons’ or ‘high velocity entry and exit’ to ‘military weapons’ as interpreted by the panel.

Further examination by PRNigeria reveals that the only closely related article to that was a page 64 commentary of what the report said on Dr Lawson’s observation, and it states that, “In response to whether high energy meant high velocity, the witness explained that the term ‘velocity’ was used in the past but it had been modified. He further explained that where the velocity was high, then the firearm was high energy. However, velocity alone did not qualify a firearm, which was why the terminology had been discarded or modified.”

The panel further stated that Dr. Lawson “confirmed that he knew the difference between low, medium and high energy injuries and also agreed that it could be said that the three (3) types of injuries are usually caused by different firearms. That a person shot with a double-barreled shot-gun was an approximation between medium to high energy. He informed the Panel that as a doctor, he did not know what a craft arm was. The witness was then asked the energy level he would categorize a military-grade gun, the witness did not eventually answer the question due to Mr. Fusika’s objection.”


Other inconsistencies observed by PRNigeria on the same matter was the case of one Edward Matthew whom Dr. Lawson confirmed that his Report was issued 30th of October, 2020 confirming that the patient had presented at the hospital at about 8.30pm on the 19th of October, 2020 before the incident at Lekki occurred. There was also a Report of Ajoku Japhet, the medical doctor confirmed that the patient presented with a gunshot injury on the 22nd of October, 2020 and claimed to have been shot at Ajah, not Lekki Toll Gate.

The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry Panel on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses led by a retired judge, Doris Okuwobi has in its report, said at least 46 unarmed protesters were either shot dead, injured with bullets, or assaulted by security forces at the Lekki Tollgate on October 20 last year.

However, the Lagos State Government has said that over 40 discrepancies were found in the report on the shooting of unarmed #EndSARS protesters at Lekki Toll Gate on October 20, 2020.

Counsel for the state government on the Judicial Panel of Inquiry on #EndSARS protests, Abiodun Owonikoko said this during an interview with Arise News monitored by PRNigeria on Thursday.

Owonikoko berated the report and said that there were several details, information left out of it by the panel.

He accused the panel of awarding damages to alleged victims of the incident who are still allegedly alive.

The lawyer cited an example of a 24-year-old man that was killed in a police barracks but was not included in the final report.

After receiving the report on Monday night, the Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu had set up a four-member committee for White Paper, vowing to ensure justice is done to all concerned.



https://theeagleonline.com.ng/endsars-report-panel-alters-medical-doctors-testimony-on-lekki-incident/

plaindealer:



They really need to arrest and prosecute these 419 and fraudulent panel members, this is so unconscionable.

plaindealer:
[s]How do you under oath fraudulently change testimonies given under oath and turn them into your own fantasies and lies in broad daylight?

smh..[/s]

bobowaja:
The lekki lies

The thing about lies is that you will need more lies to cover the initial ones.

There are two forces driving the lekki lies

1. Politics
2. Emotions

Politics for those who are wise and emotions for the gullible.

Emergingnation1:
Your propaganda will never alter that report

plaindealer:



1. Politics
2. Emotions
3. Hatred
4. Bitterness
5. Tribalism
6. Bigotry

More than 2 reason.

sammy329:
Which stupid report?

Five days after panel report, no families, no relatives, no friends NOT EVEN ANYONE FROM TOLLGATE PROTEST has come to identify the so called massacre! Shame!

Emergingnation1:
Afonja, keep on supporting evil, remember what goes around comes round, that's the basics law of nature..

Emergingnation1:
Afonja, keep on supporting evil, remember what goes around comes round, that's the basics law of nature..

bobowaja:

3 to 6 falls under emotions. Remember hate and love are both emotions.

plaindealer:



However, in re-presenting Lawson on page 301 of the same report, the panel said it, “finds that the testimony of Dr. Babajide Lawson of Reddington Hospital as to the nature of treatment offered victims of the Lekki Toll Gate Incident in relation to gunshot wounds which were high velocity ‘entry and exit’, all indicate injuries from military weapons, consistent with the bullet shells recovered by the Panel during its visit and the witnesses that testified before the Panel.”

GerogeI:


For the idiot to posted and PRNews that wrote it, maybe you need to go back to secondary school English comprehension as we are all supposedly learned.

The report simply states that based on the Foctors description of the injuries as high velocity entry and exit wounds, it(the panel, not the Doctor) has come to the conclusion that the injuries were from Military grade weapons, and this conclusion is further supported by the type if bullet shells which the panel recovered from the location.

How this simple statement, references the Doctor wrongly should greatly baffle anybody that studied secondary school English.

GerogeI:


For the idiot to posted and PRNews that wrote it, maybe you need to go back to secondary school English comprehension as we are all supposedly learned.

The report simply states that based on the Foctors description of the injuries as high velocity entry and exit wounds, it(the panel, not the Doctor) has come to the conclusion that the injuries were from Military grade weapons, and this conclusion is further supported by the type if bullet shells which the panel recovered from the location.

How this simple statement, references the Doctor wrongly should greatly baffle anybody that studied secondary school English.

A United Kingdom-based forensic expert, Dieye Willie-Harry, has debunked claims that Nigerian soldiers shot at #EndSARS protesters with live high velocity projectiles last October 20.

Willie-Harry told the Lagos State judicial panel probing the incident that from his investigation, he was “99.999 per cent sure” that the bullets fired by the military were blank bullets.

He said the results of his forensic study showed that no live high velocity projectiles were fired at the protesters at Lekki tollgate on 20th October 2020 between the hours of 18.30 and 20.43 when the Army were on ground.

Willie-Harry noted, nevertheless, that live, military-grade ammunition, might have been fired at some point after the military had left, by persons yet to be identified.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2021/09/30/endsars-forensic-report-dismisses-use-of-live-velocity-projectiles-on-lekki-protesters/

bobowaja:

Is that the only thing you saw in the article? Even the one you picked out to discuss, you are still confusing yourself about it. Talking about comprehension but you can't even comprehend yourself

plaindealer:



Sadly for him, reading and comprehension failed him.

plaindealer:



Sadly for him, reading and comprehension failed him.

plaindealer:


So, you are basically saying the panel formulated their own opinion instead of basing their opinion and conclusion by what was testified to by medical doctors and experts? Is this what you are saying.

Who briefed the panel about injuries and high velocity entry and exit wounds? Is the panel a medical and ballistic body of experts?





This is what the expert said, not the rubbish personal opinion of the ignorant and fraudulent panel.

And when you return with your next post, make sure you address the other parts of the article about people sustaining injuries elsewhere ad days before LTG incident, but the lying panel claiming it was at the LTG on the day of the incident.

bobowaja:

Is that the only thing you saw in the article? Even the one you picked out to discuss, you are still confusing yourself about it. Talking about comprehension but you can't even comprehend yourself

GerogeI:


Dear multiple monikers,
Since you gave no alternative comprehension to the simple English, I see no reason to give you any more substantial reply. Your post is simply dud.

GerogeI:


I am not sure you are well aware of what the job description of this panel is. In case you do not know, its job is to give it's own opinion. All the witnesses and experts are simply to aid the panel in forming it's own opinion based an facts, evidences and testimonies before it.
Which is exactly what they did, after listening to many people not just Dr Lawson, and even visiting the site and recovering missing bullet shells.

Where a panel is not sure of its opinion, there will usually be minority reports, along with Majority reports. In this case, there is no single minority reports, meaning all the members of the panel agreed on this conclusion. The Governor of Lagos must be stupid to constitute a panel without even one single member of integrity to exonerate the Trigger happy military.

As to other parts of the article, they hardly constitute a weightable case. Edward Matthew and the others with claims of injuries outside the incident location and time, are simply clutter. The panel listened to other many other cases, as to reach its position. That one or two were claimed to have occured outside the incident does not invalidate others.
Cc

ivandragon:
The Panel seemed to have made quite a number of errors.

But the energy with which those who support the violence metted out to peaceful protesters use in trying to take away from the whole matter is alarming...

The army initially denied ever being at the tollgate, but concrete evidence showed otherwise...

They then denied evershooting at protesters, evidence showed otherwise...

They then said it was just blanks (why even shoot blanks at peaceful protesters singing the national anthem?), evidence showed they used real bullets...

They said they didn't shoot into the crowds, evidence showed otherwise...

Why then are some persons hellbent on taking away from the fact that the military acted with extreme violence in a situation that it was not called for...

We should be more concerned about how our security operatives can be reformed so that the lekki incident does not happen again...

GerogeI:


I am not sure you are well aware of what the job description of this panel is. In case you do not know, its job is to give it's own opinion.

All the witnesses and experts are simply to aid the panel in forming its own opinion based an facts, evidences and testimonies before it.

plaindealer:


If at the end of the day it's all about opinion, why set up the panel? Why waste 1 whole year and taxpayers money?

Comedian.



All the experts testified against the panel's absurd conclusion, so how exactly did the experts and witnesses aided the panel to formulate their inglorious report?

In your own twisted world in the year 2021, facts don't matter, expert witnesses don't matter, proving beyond reasonable doubt don't matter, opinion is all we need to prove that people died and there was a massacre, even people can die and sustained injury several miles away and on totally different days, it's still perfectly OK to formulate opinion that they died and sustained injuries at the tollgate, it's all about opinion and not facts.

Why do I even bother with you and people like you?

How hard is it to make sense? Even basic and elementary sense.

GerogeI:

You are just being comical,
Maybe this is your first time hearing about panels.

Experts, testimonies, evidences are sought by the panel to make it's own conclusion.
You do not sit on the panel, you only heard media snippets of what went on at the sittings. You do not even have upto 10% of all the information available to the panel. Yet you believe you know facts better than the panel members, of whom none submitted a minority report.

Lagos state Governor must be dam stupid for not appointing you as the sole member of the panel.
You are just being delusional!

GerogeI:

You are just being comical,
Maybe this is your first time hearing about panels.

Experts, testimonies, evidences are sought by the panel to make it's own conclusion.
You do not sit on the panel, you only heard media snippets of what went on at the sittings. You do not even have upto 10% of all the information available to the panel. Yet you believe you know facts better than the panel members, of whom none submitted a minority report.

Lagos state Governor must be dam stupid for not appointing you as the sole member of the panel.
You are just being delusional!

amc:


You should be asking why some people are hellbent on twisting the facts in order to prove there was a massacre at Lekki Toll Gate. Very sad what we are seeing playing out.