Lagos panel visits military mortuary, insists on inspecting corpses

•Discovers five bullet shells at Lekki tollgate

THE Lagos State Judicial Panel of Enquiry on Restitution for victims of SARS Related Abused and other matters Friday visited the military hospital at Ikoyi, and insisted on inspecting the mortuary.

Naija Times gathered that the soldiers on duty initially refused to grant members of the panel access to the military hospital but after 30 minutes they were allowed in.

The panel is taking this step 10 days after the shooting that happened at the Lekki Tollgate which has generated a lot of controversies.

Some men in military uniform had reportedly opened fire on protesters at the protest ground in Lekki last Tuesday.

There are insinuations that the military men left the scene of the shooting with some dead bodies which they reportedly packed in their vans.

Speaking on why they visited the hospital, a member of the panel, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN, said the panel has ‘confidential information’ that certain events took place in the hospital on October 20, 2020.

His words “We are exercising our mandate on behalf of the governor of Lagos State under the tribunal of inquiry laws. “

“We have already inspected the Lekki toll gate today and we decided to pay an unscheduled visit to the mortuary of the Military Hospital because we have confidential information concerning certain events that took place in the hospital here.

“We are waiting for them to grant us access to inspect the mortuary because we have reasons to believe that that facility is relevant to our investigation.

“We don’t want to make any conclusions yet until we have access to that mortuary to inspect it.

“We have a pathologist with us who is here to help us conduct medical examination of bodies we may find in the mortuary.” It would be recalled that about five bullets were discovered at Lekki Tollgate today.”

Meanwhile, it was gathered that five bullet shells were found at the scene of the Lekki toll gate, protest venue of the #EndSARS, during the panel’s visit to the toll gate.

Managing Director of the Lekki Toll Gate Abayomi Omomuwa, during the visit to the Lekki toll gate, told the panel that a camera on the mast worked until the carnage on Wednesday.

He said that it is not working at the moment, as it stopped working after the carnage