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Lagos EndSARS Report Is Nothing But Triumph Of Fake News – Lai Mohammed
Ganiyat Ganiyu
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said that the recently submitted EndSARS panel report by the Lagos State judicial panel set up to investigate police brutality and alleged shootings of protesters at the Lekki tollgate is nothing but the triumph of fake news and the intimidation of a silent majority by a vociferous lynch mob.
Lai Mohammed said this at a press briefing on Tuesday in Abuja.
He said that never in the history of any Judicial Panel in this country has its report been riddled with so many errors, inconsistencies, discrepancies, speculations, innuendoes, omissions, and conclusions that are not supported by evidence.
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“What is circulating in public space is simply a rehash of the unverified fake news that has been playing on social media since the incident of Oct. 20th 2020. It is simply incredible that a Judicial Panel set up to investigate an incident has submitted a report laden with allegations, the same allegations it was set up to investigate in the first instance.
“Instead of sitting for all of one year, the panel could have just compiled social media ‘tales by the moonlight’ on the incident and submitted, saving taxpayers’ funds and everyone’s time. That report is nothing but the triumph of fake news and the intimidation of a silent majority by a vociferous lynch mob,” the Minister said.