The Nigerian Bar Association has asked the Federal Government to immediately launch an investigation into the October 20 , 2020 shooting of peaceful # EndSARS protesters by soldiers at the Lekki Tollgate Plaza in Lagos State .
It demanded that the investigation should reveal the identities of the person who gave the order , the soldiers who carried out the shooting as well as the slain and missing victims of the attack .
This is contained in the communiqué of the October 22 , 2020 meeting of the National Executive Committee of the NBA which was released on Saturday.
The association in the communiqué which was signed by its President , Mr Olumide Akpata , and its secretary , Joyce Oduah, deprecated what it described as “ the assault, intimidation and killing of unarmed protesters ” .
Some soldiers had on Tuesday night opened fired on the protesters who had continued their peaceful demonstration despite the curfew declared by the Lagos State Government on October 20 .
The NBA President had in the wake of the attack condemned the shooting, threatening that the association would immediately institute legal actions at local and international levels against the Federal Government and its relevant agencies on behalf of the victims .
The NBA ’ s NEC which comprises the national officers of the association , its former presidents, former secretary , incumbent chairmen and secretaries of all its branches across the country, among others , gave an approval to the comments and actions Akpata had taken on the
# EndSARS matters .
It urged the Federal Government to launch a probe into the military attack “ as a matter of urgency” .
The NEC also directed the association to follow up the said probe with pressing for filing of criminal charges against the anyone or government agency involved in the attack at relevant international and local fora .
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