Former Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has reiterated his stance that no one was killed at the Lekki toll gate in Lagos during the 2020 EndSARS protest.
Mohammed restated his position on Wednesday while appearing on Prime Time, an Arise Television programme.
He argued that five years after the incident, no family has reported a missing relative who failed to return from the toll gate.
“People died in many places during EndSARS, but saying there was a massacre at the toll gate is fake news.
“I still stand by my pushback. Nobody died during the EndSARS. No! People died in Abuja and in Kano. CNN was not at the toll gate. CNN relied on second hand and third hand information.
“My argument and logic was very simple. If a man has a goat, and the goat does not come home one night, he will go out and look for that goat.
“Now, five years on today, nobody has come to tell us that my son, or my ward, went to the toll gate and didn’t come back. The narrative that there was a massacre at the toll gate is fake news,” he said.