The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged the Federal Government led by President Muhammadu Buhari to set up an independent national truth commission on the alleged killing of peaceful protesters by security agencies.
National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement he issued to journalists, said the party it finds it strange that the Buhari Presidency had remained evasive and chose to push the responsibility of enquiry to the states.
“PDP’s call for a national truth commission is predicated on the failure of the Buhari administration to come clean on the involvement of the military in the Lekki shooting as well as the recruiting of hoodlums to attack peaceful protesters in Abuja and other parts of the country.
“Nigerians remain alarmed by the contradicting claims by government on the Lekki killing. It is recalled that in its first reaction, the military denied deploying troops to Lekki Toll Gate.
“This denial was followed by a strange claim by the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who pointed accusing fingers to faceless hoodlums in military uniform as being responsible for the Lekki killing, only for the military to later inform the Lagos enquiry panel that the military was invited to the Lekki Toll gate by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
“In the same vein, Nigerians are disturbed by the contradicting claims by Governor Sanwo-Olu, who earlier asserted that there was no causality at Lekki Toll Gate, only for him to admit afterwards that one person died and later changed his figure to two,” he said.
