Brigadier-General AI Taiwo, the Commander 81 of the Military Intelligence Brigade, has defined why the military initially denied its personnel concerned within the October 20 taking pictures on the Lekki tollgate.
Recall that shortly after the incident on October 20, the Nigerian Military by way of its Twitter deal with, denied the involvement of its officers.
Testifying earlier than the Lagos state Judicial panel this afternoon, Taiwo mentioned the navy initially denied as a result of it didn’t have its truth accessible.
”The primary assertion was born out of the truth that we didn’t have the details accessible to us and the second was as a result of no person was despatched to the Lekki tollgate to breakup any protest” he mentioned
Watch the video of him being cross-examined beneath