Lai calls for sanction on foreign media after CNN story on Lekki shooting

“We can say that the world has just witnessed a massacre without bodies,” says Lai

Information minister Lai Mohammed has called for a sanction on foreign media, after a CNN story linking the shooting of ENDSARS at Lekki toll gate to the army.

He did not state where the sanction should come from or in what form.

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Mohammed at a press conference in Abuja called CNN’s special report on the Lekki shooting incident “blatantly irresponsible”.

The CNN story is the latest expose into the shooting at Lekki that has come to be called a massacre in some quarters.

Mohammed said the allegation of massacre at the toll gate only succeeded in misleading the world.

A panel is investigating allegations.

Until the out come of the investigation, “we can say that the world has just witnessed a massacre without bodies” in Lekki.

Protesters at the venue, in photos and video recordings, allege soldiers arrived the scene and shot at them.

Protesters chanted the National Anthem in response, amidst shrieks of terror.

They also allege soldiers took away bodies of protesters.

The minister insisted that the military did not shoot at protesters at the toll gate.

He asked anyone who has contrary proofs to make them available to the panel investigating the matter.

In the wake of the initial allegations, the military denied soldiers were at the protest, insisting the images were digitally manipulated.

Days later, it swung around to say the military was at the scene at the instance of Lagos state government.

It has since gone on to say soldiers did not fire live bullets at the protest.

In the wake of the CNN story, Chief of Army Staff Lt-Gen Tukur Buratai said the army followed “rules of engagement” in the Lekki tollgate incident.