BREAKING: CNN Exposed Nigeria Soldiers Used Live Bullets on Unarmed Lekki Protesters

International news media company CNN on Wednesday released a well documented investigative reports on the infamous #LekkiMassacre which occurred on Tuesday evening, 20th October, 2020.

There have been series of inconsistencies in the stories told by the government and the Nigerian soldiers. 

CNN was able to establish some incontrovertible facts with raw evidence to depicts that live ammunition were fired on peaceful protesters in Lekki area, in Lagos, Nigeria, despite the army’s continued claims that they fired in the air and did not use live ammunition.

Using metadata, CNN geolocated the image to the protest location at 6:50 pm.
CNN has also seen and verified footage from one man who used his car as a makeshift ambulance and transported people to hospital.

Separately, Dr. Ayo Aranmolate, executive medical director at Grandville medical center, told CNN he and his colleagues received around 15 injured people that night with various gunshot wounds and cuts. None of the people they treated died, he added.

“We referred some for treatment to other hospitals,” Dr. Aranmolate said. “One of the victims had to have his leg amputated.”

The CNN facts are stated below:

⛔️They established that live bullets were used;

⛔️They used map tracking to established the validity of the videos shared on the social media;

⛔️They examined the bullets shells and established that they were Serbian bullets used by the Nigerian Army;

⛔️They confirmed from purchase receipts that the Nigerian Army bought those bullets in 2005;

⛔️They confirmed that many died at lekki tollgate. They located the body of a protester wrapped in a blood stained Nigerian flag. It said the image showed it was taken 6.50pm on 20th October, 2020;

⛔️They contacted some families and confirmed that they spoke to a woman who said his brother came back from work in a bank , ate and headed to lekki toll gate and has not been seen till date;

⛔️ They confirmed that many witnesses have run into hiding. Some of those witnesses said bodies of victims were carried away by the army.

There had been a back and forth controversial reports from the lagos state government, the Federal government and the Nigeria army where they blatantly debunk the alleged #LekkiMassaccre hence the Lagos State government set up a judicial panel of inquiry to review the reports for proper documentation of events.

The CNN reports is a serious indictment on the Nigerian Government, Lagos State Governor and the Nigeria Army.

The CNN report explained the true reflection of the incident whereby unarmed protesters were assassinated while demonstrating their citizen fundamental human rights as enshrine in the 1999 democratic constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Speaking in front of the judicial panel, the army spokesman Brigadier Ahmed Taiwo continued to deny that anyone was shot.

The army has denied that anyone was taken to hospital with gunshot wounds, and that they only shot into the air.