#EndSARS: Lekki Onslaught: ‘A Life Was Lost But An Isolated Case’ – Sanwo-Olu After Earlier Saying No Fatality

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, says he had been told that someone had died at the Reddington Hospital where multiple persons who were shot during #EndSARS protest in Lekki Toll Gate are being treated.

BIGPEN report this is coming few hours after the governor earlier declared the onslaught against the protesters fatality free.

In a reverse tweet on his verified twitter handle, on Wednesday morning, the governor, however described the death as an ‘isolated case’, saying the victim, though has not been established to be an #ENDSARS protesters died of “blunt force trauma to the head”.

“Information reaching us now is that a life was lost at Reddington Hospital due to blunt force trauma to the head. It is an unfortunate and very sad loss. This is an isolated case. We are still investigating if he was a protester”, the governor wrote.

Information reaching us now is that a life was lost at Reddington Hospital due to blunt force trauma to the head. It is an unfortunate and very sad loss.

This is an isolated case. We are still investigating if he was a protester.

— Babajide Sanwo-Olu (@jidesanwoolu) October 21, 2020

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Recalls Sanwo-Olu, had earlier in a live broadcast on Wednesday morning
admitted that soldiers opened fire on #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki toll gate area in a bid to disperse them.

He said he is currently engaging the leadership of the Nigerian Army on the development. He noted that as a governor of the state, the control of military forces was not under his purview.

Sanwo-Olu said, “For clarity, it is imperative to explain that no sitting governor controls the rules of engagement of the military. I have, nonetheless, ordered an investigation into the rules of engagement adopted by men of the Nigerian Army that were deployed to the Lekki toll gate last night.

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“This is with a view to take this up with higher commands of the Nigerian Army and to seek the intervention of Mr President in his capacity to as the Commander-In-Chief to unravel the sequence of events that happened yesterday (Tuesday) night.

“Fellow Lagosians, whilst we pray for the swift recovery of the injured, we have not recorded any fatality as against the widespread circulation on social media.” Myself and the leadership of the ministry of health have been going round. Indeed, we went round the hospitals last night.

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“We went round mortuaries last night to see and to monitor for ourselves what has happened and to look and identified the injured protesters. We personally visited the hospitals that took in these patients. 10 patients at the General Hospital in Lagos, 11 patients were at the two locations of the Reddington Hospitals both in Lekki and Victoria Island,” he said, adding “others sets were at various hospitals in the Lekki area”.