#EndSARS: No Protester Has Been Killed So Far - Lagos CP

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, said that there has been no record of the death of a protester.

Odumosu said this in an interview with lawyers to stormed the Lagos State Police Command, carrying placards.

Reports and accounts from various protest locations across the country say otherwise, with nothing less than 10 deaths recorded.

Odumosu said that the fatal situation at Surulere was “an infiltration by a miscreant whose criminal intention was to liberate the kidnap suspects and 4 of them were liberated. A stray bullet hit a driver whose owner was in a vehicle. The driver came out to see what caused the traffic gridlock and he was the one hit by a bullet and a police inspector. So, we lost a police inspector and a civilian”.

“Two of them were not even part of the protesters so there’s no single protester in Lagos that has been killed as far as I am concerned. None! If you have, tell me the incidence, tell me the rank, tell me the name, there is none,” Odumosu stressed.

“As to the directive of the Inspector-General of Police for disbandment of SARS, they have been disbanded, all their arms have been collected; the cases they were handling and the suspects have been transferred to the State CID, Panti for continuation of investigation.

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“All these I have done in compliance with the Inspector-General’s directive. You should understand that in Lagos, we have many police formations; we have, for example, the Special Fraud Unit, traditionally, they are not to carry arms, they are in mufti; equally, we have the Force CID personnel in Alagbon, they are not carrying arms and they are not to be in uniform, all these are specialised arms of the police. 

"But the one that the IG has disbanded now has been disbanded from that day. If you go to their offices now in Surulere, Gbagada, Featac, and other places where they have offices, they are under lock and key; we only posted two policemen there now to guard the places. They are no more functioning.”