Breaking: FG threatens CNN with sanctions over its report on Lekki shootings

The government described the report as "irresponsible journalismÔÇØ.

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, who made this known at a press conference in Abuja today, described the event of October 20, 2020 as a "massacre without bodiesÔÇØ, insisting that not a single body has been produced or a single family has come out to claim their family member was killed at the Lekki tollgate.

The minister said that CNN relied on social media video without verification to produce its report. "This should earn CNN a serious sanction for irresponsible reporting,ÔÇØ Mohammed said.

He also said the government stands by last Saturday's testimony of the Commander of 81 Military Intelligence Brigade, Victoria Island, Lagos, Brig. Gen. Ahmed Taiwo, who told the Judicial Panel of Inquiry instituted by the Lagos State Government that blank bullets were fired at the toll gate.

He advised persons with evidence on the Lekki shootings to give its testimony before the panel adding that some "unscrupulous personsÔÇØ including celebrities circulated fake news on the social media that aggravated the violence that trailed the two-week demonstration.