Former Commissioner for Information in Lagos state, Gbenga Omotoso, has given his views on the leaked document about the mass burial following the ENDSARS tragedy.
In at interview with ARISE NEWS on Tuesday, Omotoso said, “Mass burial is not an exclusive phenomenon of Lagos State or any other state. It’s a global phenomenon.
“People are confusing mass grave with mass burial. When you say mass grave, you put a lot of bodies in one big hole…
“Lagos State government is giving these people a decent burial… each body will have its own grave.
“I do not see why people should say they want to connect this to the Lekki tollgate incident, but I can understand this is a period of post-election politics… they are suffering from what somebody called post-election traumatic hallucination.”
The former commissioner said the bodies are not from Lekki, but from different locations across the stae around the time of the incident.
He also stated that some bodies from the Ikoyi Prison jailbreak make up part of the 103 bodies.
“I have the data to show where each of these bodies were picked up,” he said.
Following Amnesty International’s call for an independent coroners inquest, he said, “Amnesty International is not the Amnesty International that I used to know.
“They are not objective, they are not backing what they are saying with any scientific evidence or reasoning. I suspect they have been perforated by some external forces,” he said.
This is following the body’s demand for the Lagos State government to halt all plans concerning the “secret” burial of the 103 bodies till a proper investigation is carried out, as well as a coroners inquest.
Earlier, Lagos State authorities had verified the validity of a leaked letter detailing a planned mass burial for 103 victims.
The letter, dated July 19, 2023, was addressed to the Lagos State Ministry of Health by the Lagos State Public Procurement Agency.
The letter, signed by Mr Onafowote Idowu, Director-General of the Lagos State Public Procurement Agency, disclosed the approval of N61,285,000 for the mass burial of 103 dead.
Frances Ibiefo
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