Nigeria: Lekki Toll Gate Killings - Reps Minority Caucus Demands Arrest, Prosecution of Security Agents

21 October 2020

Abuja — The Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to order the arrest and prosecution of suspected security operatives that shot and killed #EndSARS protesters at Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos State.

The lawmakers, in a statement signed by the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Rep. Ndudi Elumelu, on Wednesday, said that "such wicked act of extra-judicial killing of defenseless citizens, by suspected agents of the state, cannot be justified or condoned under any rule or guise whatsoever".

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