President Buhari attention has been called by THE HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA L(HURIES)to immediately sack, arrest and prosecute the Minister of Information and Culture, following his insistence that nobody was single person was killed in the October 20, 2020, Lekki tollgate shooting,
Lai Mohammed had always insisted no one died in the shooting and call on CNN, other international and local media houses to apologize to the Federal government for saying that protesters were killed in the incident.
In a statement released today November 16, HURIWA said Lai Mohammed should be arrested for ''committing a grave and heartless offense''. The statement in part reads;
“As there has emerged undisputed evidence that indeed there was systematic annihilation of many civilian protesters in Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos State last October, we are asking the President Muhammadu Buhari as a father of all 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.
The Rights group urge Mr President not to sweep the lawlessness of the security agencies under the carpets just as the Rights group said if the President allows his information minister to get away with the impunity of denying the massacre that happened during Lekki Toll Gate before the eyes of the world captured live on video cameras, then he will be remembered long after he has retired from office as a dictator who oversaw the genocide of young protesters and the generations unborn will never forgive him for this.”