Posted by Obiageli Ezekwesili, a former minister of education, has requested an immediate answer from Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu in regards to a document that has been making the rounds online and which pertains to the contentious EndSARS protest.
According to the paper, Sanwo-Olu sanctioned the mass burial of 103 protestors who were allegedly killed by the Nigerian Army and the police during the #EndSARS rally against police brutality in October 2020.
Almost three years after the government denied the savage execution of unarmed protestors at the Lekki toll gate while they waved the Nigerian flag and chanted the national song, the document that has gone viral online appeared.
On Sunday, the ex-minister tweeted from her verified account, asking if the Governor was aware that 103 people had died as a result of the EndSARS shootings and demanding immediate action.
Ezekwesili said in a separate statement that the country’s public officials have done the “most wickedest thing they have done to the citizen,” which is to strip them of any human dignity.
She went on to say that she was scared of the impending wave of inquiries that reasonable people would demand of their government at every level.
She added, “Here is a document that has gone viral on social media, saying that your government procured services for mass burial of 103 corpses slain during the #EndSARS protest? Mr Governor of @followlasg, @jidesanwoolu.
Is that right?”
“Mr. Governor, you were aware that 103 people had been killed in the state as a result of the #EndSARS shootings, right?”
An immediate reply from you is required.
“I often feel a sense of dread when thinking about how many inquisitions the good citizens of the future would anticipate the Federal and State governments to initiate all over this country.
“The most evil thing Nigeria’s many public leaders have done to their people is to strip them of all sense of worth as human beings. They will have to answer to the Giver of Life, if not here on Earth,then in the afterlife.