The Nigerian Army on Saturday publicly gave a blow-by-blow account of its own version of the events surrounding the October 20 shooting at the Lekki Toll gate, Lagos, and declared that no one was felled by bullets fired by its men. The army said soldiers deployed to the scene used blank bullets containing only gunpowder. It denied shooting at or killing anyone at the scene, whether with blanks or live ammunition, contrary to claims by several petitioners and protesters. Some #ENDSARS protesters and human rights groups had claimed that soldiers…
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