Lekki Shootings: CCTV Reveals Soldiers Arrived In Seven Trucks

'Dotun Akintomide
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The CCTV footage released by the Lekki Concession Company, operator of the tollgate has revealed that no fewer than seven trucks were mobilized to the Lekki Toll Gate on the night of October 20 when #EndSARS protesters were allegedly shot at by soldiers.

The trucks, two white and five black, were seen on the footage. Lekki Concession Company is a private company allegedly owned by a son of the former governor of Lagos state and one of the national leaders of the APC, Asiwaju Bola  Tinubu.

The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry resumed the viewing of a CCTV footage by LCC, Saturday.

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The footage showed that the scene was calm until about 6.43pm when people could be seen running towards the tollgate from the Oriental Hotel end.

Two minutes later, at 6.45pm, vehicles, with flashing headlights, presumably Army  vehicles reportedly arrived on the scene. There were no fewer than seven of them.

At 6.53pm, about 10 minutes after the arrival of the Army vehicles, the tollgate went into a blackout.

Two minutes later, at 6.55pm, one of the presumed Army vehicles drove through the tollgate to the other end where the crowd of protesters was gathered.

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