{"id":85806,"date":"2021-09-10T20:09:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T19:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=85806"},"modified":"2021-09-10T20:09:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T19:09:38","slug":"endsars-bullets-fired-at-lekki-tollgate-were-from-nigerian-army-forensic-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/endsars-bullets-fired-at-lekki-tollgate-were-from-nigerian-army-forensic-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"EndSARS: Bullets fired at Lekki Tollgate were from Nigerian Army \u2014 Forensic expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1710540551093450101\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following the controversy surrounding the loss of lives at Lekki Tollgate during the EndSARS protest on Friday, October 20, 2020, a forensic company, Sentinel Forensic Limited, has testified before the Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution set up to unravel details of the shooting that took place during the protest.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe company\u2019s representative, Joseph Kayode Funsho, while testifying before the panel said the live ammunition were discovered to have been registered to the Nigerian Army.<\/p>\n<p>Pointblanknews.com reports that the company\u2019s representative, Joseph Kayode Funsho, while testifying before the panel said the live ammunition (bullets) were discovered to have been registered to the Nigerian Army. He, however, said the blanks didn\u2019t match the records from the Nigerian Army\u2019s inventory.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The company\u2019s findings, however, seem to contradict the claims of the Nigerian Army.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2020, Commander of the 81 Military Intelligence Brigade, Brigadier Ahmed Taiwo, while testifying before the panel insisted that only blank bullets containing gunpowder were fired at the Lekki Tollgate on October 20.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He also insisted that the military only fired into the air and not directly at the #EndSARS protesters.<\/p>\n<p>While explaining that the blank bullets used, cannot cause any damage to the flesh, Brigadier Taiwo said if real bullets were indeed fired, one bullet had the potency to kill three persons at one shot.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The panel of inquiry adjourned the hearing till Saturday, September 11.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the controversy surrounding the loss of lives at Lekki Tollgate during the EndSARS protest on Friday, October 20, 2020, a forensic company, Sentinel Forensic Limited, has testified before the&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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