Lai Mohammed
By Toyin Williams
Former Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said its tantamount to fake news to say people died at Lekki toll gate. He insisted that nobody died at Lekki toll gate in Lagos during the 2020 EndSARS protest.
The former minister stated this on Wednesday when he featured in an interview on ‘Prime Time’, a programme on Arise Television.
According to him, it has been five years, and nobody has come to complain that their children or wards went to the Lekki toll gate and never returned.
“People died in many places during EndSARS, but saying there was a massacre at the toll gate is fake news.
“I still stand by my pushback. Nobody died during the EndSARS. No! People died in Abuja and in Kano. CNN was not at the toll gate. CNN relied on second hand and third hand information.
“My argument and logic was very simple. If a man has a goat, and the goat does not come home one night, he will go out and look for that goat.
“Now, five years on today, nobody has come to tell us that my son, or my ward, went to the toll gate and didn’t come back. The narrative that there was a massacre at the toll gate is fake news,” he said.
