The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to immediately sack and arrest Lai Mohammed, Minister for Information and Culture.
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This is following the report released by the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for victims of SARS-related abuses and other matters on the October, 20, 2020 Lekki Toll gate massacre.
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The panel in their report, affirmed that the military shot at defenceless and unarmed Nigerians who were having a peaceful protest with the #EndSARS.
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Lai Mohammed had on several occasions maintained that no shooting or killing occurred at the toll gate. He had described it as a massacre without bodies and media reports as tales by moonlight.
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HURIWA making the call for the ministers sack, arrest and prosecution said they are;
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"asking President Muhammadu Buhari as a biological father of many well-educated children, to order the arrest and prosecution of his minister of information Lai Mohammed for committing a grave and heartless offence that is equivalent to the denial of the Holocaust of the 6 million Jews by Adolf Hitler which is punishable by nearly half a century of incarceration. "
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HURIWA "is also commending the brave members and Chairperson of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on the #ENDSARS PROTESTS especially the circumstances surrounding the massive cases of extrajudicial killings by the Army and armed police when these armed forces opened fire with lethal weapons targeted at the unarmed protesters."
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"President Muhammadu Buhari must note that as a Father of many Children he needs to ensure that impunity is never tolerated especially the extrajudicial killings of very youngsters of Nigeria by the Army just for protesting police Brutality".
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The Association advised the president not to allow Mohammed get away with the impunity of denying the massacre that happened before the eyes of the World captured live on video cameras. According to HURIWA, if the president allows this to be swept under the carpet, then he will be remembered long after he has retired from public office as a dictator who oversaw the genocide of young protesters and the generations unborn will never forgive him.
