Activist lawyer, Dele Farotimi, has accused former Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed of lying in his account of the incident at Lekki tollgate.
Mohammed recently claimed that nobody was killed at the Lekki tollgate in the year 2020.
However, in an interview on the State Affairs podcast with Edmund Obilo, the activist lawyer insisted that Mohammed lied about his account of the event that happened in Lekki tollgate.
According to Mohammed: “Yes there was massacre at Lekki tollgate but I was not part of the organization of the EndSARS but I became involved after the massacre.
“I belong to a political collective in the NBA known as the Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association.
“When the panel was set up, our late Chairman and us took a decision to boycott that panel and some of our cadres had placard in front of the panel demanding that the panel should not sit.”
He accused the Lagos State government of paying N100 million to injured survivors and relatives of the dead.
Farotimi added: “It was while they were there that some of the survivors approached him and that was how our collectives became involved in EndSARS.
“Because of that involvement, I was the one who personally provide safe houses, paid doctors bills, in some cases paid funeral expenses, and I’m saying this that the Lagos State government paid N100 million in cash of two installments of N50 million each to injured survivors and relatives of the dead. They made it cash because they didn’t want any record of transaction.
“The persons who collected those money are still alive and well, why are they paying if nobody died?
“Lai Mohammed is a liar, a reprobate, shameless liar, that is what he is. He has always been bold at telling reprobate lies.
“A panel of inquiry sat and reached a unanimous decision, there was no descending voice and a retired AIG was sat on that panel and they unanimously agreed that there was a massacre.
“The Lagos State government paid for the burial of over 100 people and they claimed were unidentified, they even profited off the death of these persons. Lai Mohammed is a shameless liar.”
Lekki tollgate: Lai Mohammed lied over massacre, Lagos govt paid N100m to survivors – Dele Farotimi
