Lekki Shootings: Accurate data on fatality not available – US Report

A US report assessing human rights practices in countries for the year 2020 says accurate data on the fatality toll resulting from the Lekki Toll Gate shooting remain unavailable.

The report stated that no other organisation was able to verify the claim of human right advocacy organisation, Amnesty International that 10 persons died during the event, although the government disputed it.

“On October 20, members of the security forces enforced curfew by firing shots into the air to disperse protesters, who had…