Account Of The CCTV Footage At Lekki Tollgate

The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Enquiry and Restitution for Victims of SARS related abuses and other matters, on Saturday, watched the CCTV footage on the Lekki Shootings that happened at the Lekki tollgate. The panel watched only two hours and 59 minutes of the 21-hour video.

It captured no fewer than seven army trucks at the toll gate on October 20.

Two of the trucks were white while five were black.

The recording shows people running from the vicinity of Oriental Hotel towards the direction of the toll gate at 6.43pm.

At 6.45pm, the military arrived and the seven trucks are seen in the footage.

The arrival of the military patrol vans caused a stir among the protesters as some of them began to recede from the scene of the protest.

At 6.53pm, lights appeared to have been turned off at the toll gate facility and the footage began playing in blurry black and white.

At 6.55pm, the military drove through the tollgate and at 6.57pm, flashes, suspected to be gunfire are seen in the footage.

At 7.09pm, the protesters appeared to be surrounded on all sides by the military vehicles which had flashing lights.

At about 7:48 pm, the video shows what appears to be burning tires and stops panning. It remained fixated on the scene for minutes.

Recall that during his testimony on November 7, the LCC MD had testified that the surveillance camera stopped working at 8pm. But the footage continued till 8:07pm.

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