LEKKI SHOOTING: LAWYER FILES N10BN SUIT AGAINST PRESIDENT BUHARI, BURATAI
A Lagos based lawyer, Olukoya Ogungbeje, has filed a N10 billion fundamental rights suit against President Muhammadu Buhari and Tukur Buratai, chief of Army staff, over the shooting of #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki toll gate area of Lagos State.
Earlier, a Human rights lawyer, Inihehe Effiong, wrote to the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, demanding the Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) footage showing the shooting of #ENDSARS protesters at the Lekki toll gate area of the State on Tuesday, October 20,Eons Intelligence reports.
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Recall, on October 20, 2020, men of the Nigerian Army allegedly shot dead about 15 #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki toll gate.
The incident triggered widespread criticism, although the army had denied shooting at the protesters.
In the suit filed at the federal high court in Lagos, Ogungbeje is asking for a declaration that "the brutal shooting and killing and use of brute force against unarmed, defenceless and peaceful protesters/Nigerian citizens engaging in the #ENDSARS peaceful protest on October 20, 2020, at the Lekki tollgate was illegal, unlawful, undemocratic, oppressive, wicked and unconstitutional."
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According to him, the protesters were deprived of their "right to life, fair hearing, right to peaceful assembly and association guaranteed under sections 33, 36, 38, 39 and 40 of the constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria, 1999".
Ogungbeje is praying the court to compel the defendants to "immediately pay N10bn compensation to all the victims of the mindless shooting and brutal killing at Lekki tollgate".
He is also praying for an order "compelling the immediate prosecution of all the culpable security agents, soldiers and persons directly or indirectly or remotely involved in the dastardly shooting and killing of unarmed, defenceless and peaceful protesters/victims of the #EndSARS peaceful protests at the Lekki tollgate on the 20th of October, 2020".
Aside from President Buhari and Buratai, joined as defendants in the suit are the federal Government, the Nigerian army, chief of defence staff, inspector-general of police, Nigeria police force, Department of State Services (DSS), director-general of DSS, Lagos State Government, attorney-general of Lagos State, and the attorney-general of the federation.
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