Lekki Shooting:#EndSars coordinator submits flash drives containing videos, photos to panel

serah Ibrahim, one of the coordinators of the #EndSARS protest, on Saturday said she witnessed how soldiers and later police operatives shot innocent protesters at the Lekki toll gate.

Serah made the statement in her testimony at the resumed sitting of the Lagos State Judicial Panel on Restitution for victims of SARS and other related matters.

The witness, had at a previous sitting, explained to the panel that she was at the protest ground in Lekki every day, coordinating some of the activities and she was an eyewitness to the shooting on the night of October 20, 2020.

The panel is racing against time after it got a three-month extension to complete the hearing and give decisions in the 235 petitions it received from the public.

To make up for some of the time lost to the Easter holidays, the panel listed 17 cases for hearing on Saturday as opposed to about 10 to 12 it usually hears at a sitting.

It was learnt that there were 14 cases related to the Lekki shooting, out of the 235 petitions received by the Lagos Panel.

The witness, who was led in evidence by her counsel, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Yinka Olumide-Fusika, described herself as a freelance auditor and continued her testimony of the events of the night on Saturday.

 

She tendered in evidence two flash drives containing photos and videos that suggested that the Lekki Concession Company (LCC) had more visuals in its custody capable of revealing what exactly transpired on the night of the incident.

 

Serah alleged that a hospital refused to release information about some of the protesters receiving treatment after the shooting at the Lekki toll gate.

After giving her testimony, the panel admitted in evidence some bullets which the witness said she picked from the floor during the shooting.

The Panel also granted the request of Serah’s lawyer to summon the Director of Hospital Administration and HR of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Mr K. F. Gbajumo, who allegedly issued a memo prohibiting his staff from giving out information on the victims.

On the next adjourned date, the witness is expected to play more of the videos she gathered on the night of the incident to further prove her narration of the events of the shooting at the protest venue.