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Nov 2021
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What does the Lekki toll gate report mea...

Bbc World Service
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A leaked report by an inquiry panel found that Nigerian armed forces shot and killed #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki toll gate in October 2020. The report refers to the incident as a massacre. But Nigeria’s information minister Lai Mohammed has dismissed the report as a ‘triumph of fake news’. He denies that soldiers fired live bullets at protesters.

Host: Alan Kasujja (@kasujja) Reporter: Is’haq Khalid (@ikmkhalid)

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