Lai Mohammed, the Minister for Information and Culture, has finally reacted to the report submitted by the Lagos State Judicial Panel on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and Other Matters.

While addressing the press on the matter on Tuesday, Mohammed said the report released by the panel cannot be relied upon, insisting that “there was no massacre at the Lekki Tollgate”.

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Puncturing the report, he described the October 20, 2020 incident at the tollgate as a “phantom massacre”.

“We reject the notion that soldiers shot at innocent citizens at the Lekki Tollgate,” he said, as broadcast by Arise TV.

On November 15, the panel submitted a 309-page report to Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Governor of Lagos State, admitting that soldiers shot live ammunition at armless protesters with the intention to kill and maim them.

Mohammed’s reaction has been anticipated ever since, having been the most vocal government opponent of multiple reports of the killing of innocent and defenceless civilians at the Lekki toll plaza.