Former managing director of News Agency of Nigeria and founder of TheNews Magazine, Mr Bayo Onanuga has called for the sack of the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, for alleged falsehood as to what transpired at the Lekki tollgate, Lagos State on October 20th, 2020.
The CEO and managing director of PM News and TheNEWS magazine who stated this in his Facebook post on Tuesday 16th, 2021 laments that Nigeria is the only country in the world where public officials rarely resign, when they betray public trust egregiously or openly lie to the people.
This came on the heels of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution on Lekki Toll Gate Shooting Incident and Cases of Police Brutality, as well as human rights violations, which accused the Nigerian Army and Nigeria Police of complicity in the death of protesters at the Lekki tollgate in 2020.
The 309-page report detailed how the Army and police disregarded their rules of engagement during the protest.
The panel in its report stated that on October 20, 2020, at the Lekki Toll Gate, officers of the Nigerian Army shot, injured and killed unarmed, helpless and defenceless protesters without provocation or justification, while they were waving the Nigerian flag and singing the National Anthem adding that the manner of assault and killing could in context be described as a massacre.
According to Onanuga,”Nigeria is the only country in the world where public officials rarely resign, when they betray public trust egregiously or openly lie to the people. We now know the truth that there was indeed a massacre of defenceless young Nigerians by soldiers and policemen at the Lekki Toll Gate on 20-10-2020, contrary to the official lies that it didn’t happen.
“The man who told the biggest lie and even embarrassed Nigeria by demanding an apology from CNN is still sitting pretty in office. Now that his lies have blown on his face, one expects that he should be honourable enough to resign and apologise to all those young Nigerians that he grossly offended.
“If he does not, one expects the President to demand his resignation letter. Nigeria deserves to be a country of honourable men and women. Integrity should be our watchword. President Integrity, over to you.
