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The Managing Director of the Lekki Concession Company, Yomi Omomuwasan, says he does not know how much is made at the Lekki Toll Gate monthly.
The LCC is the operators of the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge and the Admiralty Circle Plaza along the Lekki-Epe Expressway.
Speaking on Nigeria Info 99.3 on Thursday, Omomuwasan said it will take up to four months to finish repair works at the Lekki toll gate which was burnt last October in the aftermath of the #EndSARS protests against police brutality.
Eyewitnesses had claimed protesters died while some were injured when soldiers allegedly opened fire on youths on October 20, 2020 at the Lekki toll gate which was a major demonstration ground during the protest.
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, on Monday, described the Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemi, popularly known as Sunday Igboho as a child of circumstance.
The governor, while speaking on Channels Television’s programme, ‘Politics Today’, noted that the situations that led to the activist’s interventions in security issues should be investigated.
“Sunday Igboho is a child of circumstance. We must look at the circumstance that led to each of these interventions,” Akeredolu noted.
The Chairman of the South-West Governors’ Forum stressed that nothing happens without a reason, adding that the circumstances may be legal and maybe illegal but should be examined.
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The Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Muhammad Adamu who had been under ‘fire’ recently over his tenure elongation by president Muhammadu Buhari, has received fresh knocks from Nigerians after the arrest of EndSARS protesters at Lekki Toll Gate on Saturday.
The EndSARS protests that led to the death of many Nigerian youths across the country late 2020, resurfaced when the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry which was set up by the state government to investigate the alleged extrajudicial killings by the Nigeria Police, ordered the reopening of the Lekki Toll Gate where Nigerian Military allegedly killed many protesters on October 10, 2020.
#OccupyLekki: Sanwo-Olu never directed police to brutalise protesters, says commissioner
Sodiq Oyeleke
The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has vowed to ensure that police officers who allegedly brutalised #OccupyLekkiTollgate protesters on Saturday are brought to book.
The Lagos State Commissioner for Information, Gbenga Omotoso, stated this at a media briefing organised by the Lekki Concession Company.
The commissioner explained that Sanwo-Olu never directed the police to assault anyone, adding that the governor would not stand by and watch Lagosians being brutalised.
Omotoso said, “The governor is very unhappy with what happened on Saturday, that people were brutalized, and he has directed Police Commissioner Hakeem Odumosu to investigate the matter. Whoever is found culpable, I assure you, will not go without punishment. This is because Mr. Sanwo-Olu has said it loud and clear that he is not somebody who will abuse the rights of others.