Aisha Yesufu, a well-known Nigerian political activist, has stated that there can be no peace in the country if the government fails to address the issue of injustice.
The activist made the remark on Arise TV in response to concerns voiced in the Lagos State Government’s White Paper.
The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on the #EndSARS demonstration, which took place on October 20, 2020, published a 309-page report detailing the conclusions regarding the alleged gunshot at the Lekki Toll Gate, which resulted in the deaths of some demonstrators.
The Federal Government, on the other hand, has denied wrongdoing, with Minister of Information Lai Mohammed dismissing the Lagos panel report as “moonlight fables.”
The panel’s use of the word’massacre’ to characterize the occurrence at the tollgate on October 20 was also deemed unsuitable by Mohammed.
Despite the fact that the Lagos State Government criticized some aspects of the report, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu invited Folarin Falana (Falz), Debo Adebayo (Mr. Marcaroni), Dele Farotimi, Temitope Majekodunmi, Segun Awosanya (Segalinks), Adedotun (Just Detoun), Seun Kuti, Commissioner of Police Hakeem Odumos
The 46-year-old activist, who was active in the ‘Bring Back Our Girls’ movement, however, accused both the Lagos State and Federal governments of lying.
She further claimed that the administration wished for the panel to back up their story.
She said, “It is very easy for the governor to talk about harmony, peace and not talk about justice because he hasn’t lost any loved one. The people who have lost their loved ones, who are mourning, and who are still mourning, what is the most painful when you lose a loved one, is the government is actually trying to gaslight and deny that your loved ones ever existed.
“I have gone through this back in our movement with the Chibok parent where the government said they were no adoption I remember one of the mothers would ask in 2014.
“Whenever she hears that people say that the Chibok girls’ adoption never happened. So I am pretty sure the families of the victims of killings in Lagos will be wondering is it that their loved ones never existed.
“It is totally shameful, this issue of the governor alluding that they are hoodlums who came out and took over the protest and all of that, no there are not hoodlums, the governor is number one hoodlums in Lagos, and he brought in his fellow hoodlums to come and attack the peaceful protesters.”
