In what will surprise many Nigerians given the fact that there have been several denials, video footage of the Lekki shooting shows the army sent seven trucks to the tollgate on the night the incident happened.

The video currently being reviewed by the Lagos judicial panel investigation.

It was submitted to the panel by the Lekki Concession Company (LCC) which manages the tollgate.

It will be recalled that the soldiers were reported to have opened fire on #EndSARS protesters who had converged on the facility on October 20.

However, the army insists its men-only fired blank bullets into the air to disperse the crowd.while CNN in its investigations and reports shows that bullets used by the soldiers were amongst the one purchased by the Nigeria Army from Sabia between 2005 and 2019

Video footage shows army sent 7 trucks to Lekki tollgate


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But in his reaction Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari's government has failed the country.

The Senate minority leader made the comment while being interviewed in a programme on Channels Television.

This Govt Has Failed, There Is No Way To Cover It – Senator Abaribe

Senator Abaribe. Photo credit: @NGRSenate

His words:

“The party (Peoples Democratic Party) has its position and the position is very simple: this government has failed.
“You don’t have any other way of trying to cover it. You can say all the rhetoric, you make all the propaganda. You can go ahead and try to pull the wool over the eyes of the people but the #EndSARS protest showed a failure of this government.
“It is not that is just failing now. It has been failing all along and we have been continually pointed it out.

 ”Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that not under his watch will another EndSARS protest be staged by Nigerians as it happened in the month of October.

Speaking on Tuesday, November 17, during a quarterly meeting of the National Security Council (NSC), Buhari said he would not allow the repeat of the nationwide demonstration which led to the loss of lives and destruction of properties.

Muhammad Dingyadi, minister of police affairs, made this disclosure during a press briefing at the State House on the outcome of the meeting which was presided over by the president at the Presidential Villa.

As the shooting of harmless protesters at Lekki tollgate by security men continue to anger Nigerians, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to set up an independent national truth commission.

This was disclosed by the party in a statement by its national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan.

The party faulted Buhari government for pushing the responsibility of enquiry to the states.

The statement read in part:

“PDP’s call for a national truth commission is predicated on the failure of the Buhari administration to come clean on the involvement of the military in the Lekki shooting as well as the recruiting of hoodlums to attack peaceful protesters in Abuja and other parts of the country.
EndSARS killing: PDP tells Buhari to constitute national truth commission

 President Muhammadu Buhari . Credit: Premium Times

In another report, the federal government on Thursday, November 19, made a defence against the CNN report on the Lekki shooting, insisting that no "massacre" occurred as "irresponsibly" peddled on the social media.

The information minister threatened that the federal government will not hesitate to sanction the foreign media for what he termed "irresponsible journalism.”Speaking during a press conference in Abuja, Lai-Mohammed, minister of culture and information, made this known as he cleared the air amid fresh controversies generated by the CNN report on the EndSARS protest.