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LAGOS—The Lagos State government has urged the public to disregard purported plans to conduct mass burial for casualties of the 2020 #EndSARS incident, describing it as the handiwork of mischief makers.
This came following reports making the rounds on social media of a purported mass burial plan for casualties of the 2020 #EndSARS incident.
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Dr. Olusegun Ogboye, made the remarks in a statement, yesterday while reacting to the purported reports.
The statement read: “The attention of the Lagos State Government has been drawn to some social media publications about a purported mass burial plan for casualties of the 2020 #EndSARS incident.
“Peddlers of the news are deliberately misinterpreting and sensationalising a letter from the Lagos State Government Public Procurement Agency entitled: ‘Letter of No Objection: Mass Burial for the 103, the Year 2020 #EndSARS victims, to misinform the public, stir public sentiment and cause public disaffection against the Lagos State Government.
“It is public knowledge that the year 2020 #EndSARS crisis that snowballed into violence in many parts of Lagos recorded casualties in different areas of the state and not from the Lekki toll gate as being inferred in the mischievous publications.
“For the records, the Lagos State Environmental Health Unit (SEHMU) picked up bodies in the aftermath of #EndSARS violence and community clashes at Fagba, Ketu, Ikorodu, Orile, Ajegunle, Abule-Egba, Ikeja, Ojota, Ekoro, Ogba, Isolo and Ajah areas of Lagos State. There was also a jailbreak at Ikoyi Prison.
“The 103 casualties mentioned in the document were from these incidents and not from Lekki toll-gate as being alleged. For the avoidance of doubt, no body was retrieved from the Lekki toll gate incident.
“Contrary to disingenuous narrative weaved around the recently approved mass burial, the #EndSARs panel subpoenaed the Lagos State chief pathologist to produce full records of unclaimed bodies of dead deposited with state central morgue during the days immediately preceding and following the event at Lekki tollgate on 20/10/20 .
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