Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State.
(TRIBUNE)
Lagos Commissioner for Information says the
announcement has nothing to do with Lekki
shooting.
The Lagos State Government has said that the
invitation to the public by the state Chief Coroner,
Mrs Mojisola Dada for identification of corpses
was meant for victims of hoodlums and cult
clashes in the state, saying it has nothing to do
with the Lekki shooting of October 20, 2020.
Recently, the state Chief Coroner in a public
announcement, called on relatives of people who
lost their lives between October 19th and 27 to visit
the Lagos State Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) to
identify and claim bodies of their loved ones.
The date stated in the announcement coincided with
the week soldiers shot at #EndSARS protesters at
the Lekki tollgate.
Many reportedly died during the two-week long
agitation for an end to police brutality.
But the Commissioner for Information and Strategy
in Lagos, Gbenga Omotoso, has said there is no
connection between the announcement and the
Lekki incident.
Omotoso said the announcement was meant for
victims of hoodlums and cultists’ killings in Lagos.
He said, “On the announcement by the Chief Coroner
that people should come and identify their dead
relatives is a routine matter; it has nothing to do
with what happened in Lekki.
"There is a law that you cannot bury anybody
without a coroner’s inquest. You agree that even
before Lekki, people were already being killed.
Cultists were on the rampage in Ikorodu, Surulere, on
Ikorodu Road and so many other places in Lagos.
Also, policemen were being killed.
“There was anarchy. So the bodies that were picked
up at the scene of all of these killings and fighting
are the ones that the coroner is asking Lagos
residents to come and identify. If it is Lekki that they
say the government is trying to cover up, there is no
way the government would now go out to
newspapers to ask people to come and look at dead
bodies,” he told Punch.
Meanwhile, the management of Mainland Hospital
in Lagos says it received a clear directive from the
state Ministry of Health not to release bodies of
people who died during #EndSARS protests.
According to Punch, the Medical Director of the
hospital, Dr. Abimbola Bowale, said, “It is only the
commissioner (of health) or even Mr. Governor that
can release the body to you, Sir. So, you will have
to contact him.”
A front desk staff of the hospital also disclosed to
the newspaper that the hospital’s dieners (morgue
attendants) have been instructed to release bodies
of only those who died before and after the
#EndSARS protests.
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