The Nigerian army has voiced out its disappointment with Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s insistence on not calling them to intervene in the #EndSARS crisis in Lagos state.
While talking about the disappointment, Brigadier AI Taiwo who gave Nigerian army’s account of the Lekki Toll Gate Shooting when the sitting of the Lagos judicial panel resumed recently stated that Governor Sanwo-Olu called on the military for support on October 20 after the #EndSARS protest degenerated into “violence.”
He said: “I spoke with the governor and said the army was unhappy that he said he did not ask the army to intervene. But I’m sure, after we’ve watched everything, we saw he had more than reasonable grounds to ask the army to intervene.
“Perhaps, it was the way everything went that made him say so.”
It should be recalled that when Sanwo-Olu who reacted to the outrage that trailed the shooting, he blamed it on “forces beyond our direct control”.
Also while appearing on CNN, the Lagos state Governor confirmed that the army was responsible for the incident but denied having a hand in it.
He said in the interview: “From the footage we could see, because there were some cameras at that facility, it seems to me that they would be men in military uniform—it should be Nigerian Army or something.”
When he was asked if he meant the military opened fire on protesters, Sanwo-Olu said: “Yes. That’s what the footage showed.”
