According to Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, the leaked Lagos State government memo about the secret mass burial of 103 EndSARS protest victims is just one of the many surprises yet to be revealed.
Adegboruwa mentioned this during an episode of Channels Television’s Law Weekly.
He emphasised that “denying the fatalities that occurred during the October 20th, 2020 events at the Lekki Toll Gate would be a disservice to those affected, even though some may question the exact number of casualties.”
The leaked memo, dated July 19, 2023, sparked outrage as it indicated the approval of funds for the mass burial.
However, the Lagos State Ministry of Health clarified that the bodies were not from the Lekki Toll Gate but from various other locations.
“The leaked memo from the Ministry of Health of Lagos State is one of the many surprises that people will still see in the course of time so long as the government has not come to terms with the reality of the events of October 20th, 2020,” the senior lawyer said.
See the leaked memo below.
He added, “May be the challenge would be the quantum or the number of such fatalities,”
The human rights lawyer stated further that “But to blanketly assert that there was no death or there was no blood spilt in any way at all as a result in particular of gunshots by members of the Nigerian Army is to do a disservice to the souls of those people who are affected.”
