Some persons with injuries on Friday stormed the Lagos Court of Arbitration in Lekki , the hearing venue of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry probing the alleged shooting of # EndSARS protesters by soldiers on the night of October 20 at the Lekki tollgate .
Some of the injured persons , who were brought to the LCA in a white bus , had plaster of Paris cast on their legs and arms and bandages wrapped on their heads and chests .
They claimed they were victims of the alleged tollgate shootings by soldiers at the tollgate .
The injured persons were brought by a banner – carrying group , New Nigeria Network , and counsel for some # EndSARS protesters before the panel , Adesina Ogunlana .
One of the injured , Edwin Augustine , said he ended up on crutches after a bullet pierced his thigh on the night of October 20 at the Lekki tollgate .
Augustine said , “I was shot on October 20 at the Lekki tollgate . I didn ’ t see who shot me . I was at the snooker board . I heard gunshots . The first one was in the air . The second was direct to people . I wanted to follow someone to the charging spot to collect my phone, but he was shot right beside his heart . Immediately he fell , I tried to turn and check what was wrong and I received mine (shot ) on my thigh. I fell and I was there unconscious . When I woke up the next day , I saw myself at the hospital . ”
Another injured person , Damilola Ogunleke , also attributed his wound to alleged gunshot at the tollgate , adding that he already had two surgical operations.
Ogunleke said , “ I was shot on the head , but I didn ’ t see who shot me . It happened on the protest ground , Lekki tollgate on the night of October 20 , near Access Bank. ”
A man , Nathaniel Solomon , displayed the picture of a young man lying dead on the grass at the venue .
Solomon said the young man in the picture was his brother, Abouta , whom he alleged was shot dead on the protest ground at the tollgate .
Solomon said , “ The person in the picture is my younger brother, Abouta Solomon . We are from Mubi North Local Government Area of Adamawa State . My brother was shot at the Lekki tollgate on October 20 . It was the Army that shot him . ”
Asked how he was sure that his brother died from gunshot by soldiers, Solomon said , “ Because some boys that he was with told us that he had been shot , so we rushed there and picked up his corpse.
“ I didn ’ t know when my brother left home for the tollgate . He never told me he was going there. He was living with me here in Lekki, at Marwa .
“ Some boys called me. By then , my phone battery was flat, the phone had gone off . They called one of our brothers and told him that Abouta had been killed . So , we went there, found him on the grass , picked up his corpse and we went to St Paul ’ s Mortuary at Oyingbo .
“ His corpse was at the Lekki tollgate . There were protesters around at the time . He was laid on the grass that was growing on the road divider in the middle of the road .
“ That night when we took my brother’ s corpse, we saw other people who had been shot , about four of them, on the ground . They were all dead . ”
Solomon said the remains of his brother had since been taken to Adamawa and buried .
