Buratai on Lekki shooting: “Soldiers were only ensuring curfew compliance”

Tukur Buratai, a lt-gen and chief of army staff, has said that soldiers who shot and killed peaceful #EndSARS protestors at Lekki Toll Booth were only enforcing curfew compliance.

The Acting Director of Army Public Relations, Sagir Musa, has come out with a statement credited to the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai.

In the statement, he remarked that people were trying to discredit the military and Nigerian Government.

Though Musa did not make direct reference to Tuesday killings at Lekki, he said, ”

Detractors both local and international have mischievously and deliberately misrepresented troops’ efforts to ensure compliance with the curfew imposed by legitimate civil authorities in Lagos and other states.

“These agitators are falsely accusing the NA of being responsible for the activities of the miscreants despite glaring evidence to the contrary.”

He also decried that the detractors are threatening to report the Nigerian Army to the International Criminal Court and also impose a visa ban on them from foreign countries.

“Criminal elements are threatening us with travel ban but we are not worried because we must remain in this country to make it better.

“The first time I travelled outside this country, I was already 50 years and a general, so I don’t mind if I live the rest of my life here,” Buratai said.