The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has faulted the Cable Network News (CNN) investigation on the Lekki Massacre which reportedly occurred during the #EndSARS protest.
Mohammed, who reacted to the investigations released by CNN on Wednesday, said that the government might be forced to sanction the foreign news medium.
Describing the report by CNN as ‘irresponsible journalism’, Mohammed held that the occurrence of October 20, 2020, was ‘a massacre without dead bodies.’
Further insisting that no life was lost during the protest, the minister said that the families alleged to have lost a family member during the shooting had not produced a single body.
Calling for the sanction of CNN, Mohammed said that the foreign news medium relied on unverified social media videos to curate its report.
He also blamed Nigerian celebrities for aggravating the violence that consumed the nation by circulating fake news.
CNN had released an investigation that contradicted the claims of the Federal Government on the incident that happened at the Lekki tollgate in Lagos.
In the wake of the CNN story, Chief of Army Staff Lt-Gen Tukur Buratai said the army followed “rules of engagement” in the Lekki tollgate incident.
