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Vol 62 No 25

Published 16th December 2021


Nigeria

Costly U-turn on killings

By rejecting the investigators' verdict on the Lekki shootings Governor Sanwo-Olu has lost voters' trust

A year after admitting that it was likely that the military had killed civilians at the Lekki toll gate in protest against police brutality in October 2020, the Lagos state government has backtracked spectacularly, losing much of its credibility in the process.

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