By our reporter| The Lekki Concession Company (LCC) on Tuesday submitted a video footage recorded by its surveillance cameras on Tuesday, October 20, 2020 to the Lagos judicial panel on #EndSARS.
According to Abayomi Omomuwansa, managing director of LCC who made the submission to the panel, the cameras stopped working from 8pm on the night of the shooting at the Lekki tollgate.
He further explained that the cameras were initially not tampered with until around 8pm when they stopped recording.
He said, “I can confirm that inside here is the video footage that our surveillance camera was able to record for the 20th of October.”
“I can confirm categorically that we never ever tampered with that surveillance cameras. That’s why we can still get the footage. Until 8 o’clock when it was tampered with and we couldn’t get any footage anymore,” he said.
The company had also said the power outage on the night of the shooting was because its staff were withdrawn from office locations; hence they could not switch on backup generators when power was interrupted.
Tuesday’s sitting started at 11:00 am, with the testimony from one Mr Ndukwe Ekekwe.
Ekekwe said he was randomly arrested by SARS officers on February 16, 2018, without any valid reason, beaten up and then transferred to their office in Ikeja.
He further claimed he was stabbed at different parts of his body by the officers, and later taken to his shop at Alaba where they broke his shop and started auctioning his products.
As he started shouting for help, the officers, he said, took him up a two-story building and threw him down – an incident which caused him to break his spine.
Although he survived the incident, Ekekwe is now confined to a wheelchair.
He told the panel that he would like to be compensated, as he also lost goods worth N15million.
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