The Nigerian Human Rights Writers Association HURIWA has commissioned the Federation's Attorney General Abubakar Malami to apologize and resign if he has any honor left HURIWA made the call in response to Malami's comment that the gunmen who attacked the End SARS protesters at the Lekki tollbooth in Lagos state were not soldiers The group said the AGF should apologize or resign as the Nigerian military has confirmed that soldiers were deployed at the Lekki tollbooth HURIWA revealed this in a statement signed by its National Coordinator Emmanuel OnwubikoThe statement reads in part It was with hearts that were heavy and tragically disappointed at the rate of spread of illogic as a public communication technique that we at the Nigerian Human Rights Writers Association HURIWA read in the media from popular mass communication that the Abubakar Malami Attorney General of the Federation AGF the Federal Republic of Nigeria's chief law enforcement officer and Nigeria's chief advocate said that it is likely that thugs dressed in military uniform and not soldiers will shoot EndSARS protesters at the Lekki toll gate in Lagos state In fact we saw this statement as unwarranted irritation and an aggressive form of insults and disrespect for the innocent peaceful protesters in Lekki Toll Gate Lagos who were sent on October 20 2020 to the great world beyond by army men and officers paid with taxpayer money to defend the territorial integrity of Nigeria Federal Attorney General and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami SAN should present both his apologies and his resignation now that it has become clearly unequivocal that the Nigerian army was in fact deployed at the lekki Lagos toll gate on October 20 of 2020 because according to the Rights group that attempt by the Federal Attorney General to use sophistry to seek to create confusion around the circumstances surrounding the massacre that characterized the deployment of armed soldiers on the ground of peaceful protests in Lekki Toll Gate Lagos in that an undetermined number of Nigerians may have been killed in the shooting that continued allegedly unleashed by soldiers on peaceful protesters in Lekki Toll Gate Lagos Former union leader condemns the government for the new increase in the price of fuel The group said the display of embarrassment by the Federal Attorney General and Justice Minister Abubakar Malami over this Lekki Toll Gate Lagos issue is intolerable and unacceptable Despite Malami's clLaim the 81st Division of the Nigerian Army had admitted that soldiers had been deployed at the Lekki toll gate Brig Gen Ahmed Taiwo Commander of the 81st Division Military Intelligence Brigade Victoria Island Lagos State while appearing before the Lagos Judicial Investigation and Restitution Panel insisted yesterday that the soldiers fired blank ammunition and not real bullets at the protesters He also insisted that contrary to reports the soldiers did not kill any protesters at the Lekki tollbooth
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