Former Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has maintained that no deaths occurred at the Lekki toll gate in Lagos during the 2020 EndSARS protests.
Mohammed made this assertion on Wednesday during an interview on Prime Time, a programme aired on Arise Television.
He noted that it has been five years since the incident, and no one has come forward to report that their children or wards went to the Lekki toll gate and never returned.
“People died in many places during EndSARS, but saying there was a massacre at the toll gate is fake news,” he said.
“I still stand by my pushback. Nobody died during the EndSARS. No! People died in Abuja and in Kano. CNN was not at the toll gate. CNN relied on second-hand and third-hand information.”
He used a simple analogy to support his claim: “If a man has a goat, and the goat does not come home one night, he will go out and look for that goat.”
“Now, five years on today, nobody has come to tell us that my son, or my ward, went to the toll gate and didn’t come back. The narrative that there was a massacre at the toll gate is fake news,” he concluded.
