Alhaji Lai Mohamed, the Minister of Information, has dismissed the report submitted by the Lagos State EndSARS panel on Police Brutality as a hoax that did not follow the evidence at hand.
On Tuesday, he told a press conference in Abuja that the report submitted to Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu is a repetition of previously circulated fake news. Instead of sitting for a year, Mohammed contended, the panel should have simply compiled social media reports and adjourned. The minister claimed that the report contains discrepancies, innuendos, inconsistencies, and errors.
He was perplexed by the panel’s judgment of “massacre in context,” which stated that it could only be a “phantom massacre.” The minister stated that the study made no suggestions for innocent people killed in Lagos, and that it thus could not be trusted.