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How Sanwo Olu Hid Dead Body Of Journalist Killed During Endsars by ANIMABIDR: 10:03am On Aug 03, 2023
On Sunday morning, a letter from the Lagos State Public Procurement Agency (LSPPA) went viral. This letter addressed to the state’s ministry of health confirmed the government’s intention to hold a mass burial for 103 fatal victims of the #EndSARS protest.

According to the letter, the state government awarded a ₦61,285,000 contract to TOS Funerals Limited to bury the bodies, a sum that equates ₦595,000 per body.

However, when Nigerians began to claim the government was finally owning up to the killings at Lekki Tollgate on October 20, 2020, the government responded with a statement saying none of the bodies was recovered from the tollgate, but from other parts of the state.

The state’s health ministry also alleged that after the protest, the chief coroner invited families of victims to claim their bodies but “nobody responded to claim any of the bodies”. This, however, was a lie.

In the aftermath of the #EndSARS violence, the office of the Chief Coroner invited members of the public Throughout public adverts and announcement who had lost loved ones or whose relatives had been declared missing between 19th and 27th October 2020 from various clashes as mentioned above, to contact the department of Pathology and Forensic Medicine of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) to help with identification of these casualties deposited in State-owned morgues. Relatives were to undergo DNA tests for identification purposes. It is important to state categorically that nobody responded to claim any of the bodies.

However, after almost three years, the bodies remain unclaimed, adding to the congestion of the morgues. This spurred the need to decongest the morgues – a procedure that follows very careful medical and legal guidelines in the event that a relative may still turn up to claim a lost relative years after the incident.

— excerpt from Lagos State Ministry of Health statement (July 23, 2023
‘FIRST WE SAW OUR SON’S BODY, THEN IT WENT MISSING AGAIN’
Pelumi Onifade would have been a 23-year-old graduate today had his life not been cut short on October 25, 2020, by a police task force team led by one Yinka Egbeyemi.

The young intern journalist was interviewing a crowd of people assembled at a place where COVID-19 palliative was being looted in Oko Oba, Agege, Lagos, but never lived to tell the story as he first went missing, then found dead.

For five days, Onifade’s family and friends searched frantically for him. Distraught by the news of her son’s death, Abosede Onifade, his mother, was unable to join Olatunde, her husband, and other family members who went to a mortuary in Ikorodu on October 30, 2020, and found Pelumi’s lifeless body.

In a telephone interview with FIJ on Friday, Abosede said she saw the state government’s statement and was disappointed. She said, “They lied, the government lied, they are liars.”

Reliving the horror of the past three years, she told FIJ that contrary to the government’s claim that nobody showed up to claim the bodies, her husband was denied access to Pelumi’s body in 2020, and when they went back for it, the mortuary staff told them the body was no longer there.

The body would later be transferred to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), where the family was asked to do a DNA test to confirm if the deceased was their child.

‘WE DID DNA TEST, NEVER GOT RESULT BECAUSE OF SANWO-OLU’
In 2021, the Onifade family took their search to LASUTH hoping they could get Pelumi’s body and give him a befitting burial, but it was harder than they imagined.

Speaking with FIJ at the time, Olatunde said, “When we went to LASUTH, a doctor asked for our son’s name and we told him. He further informed us that autopsies had been carried on the bodies brought to the facility. He then advised us to take a DNA test and we did, but we never got the result.”

On Friday, Abosede said she and her husband submitted full-size pictures of themselves and gave samples for the test but were never invited for the results.

She said when they both pressed for answers, the doctor revealed to them that Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the State Governor, had taken responsibility for the tests and the hospital could not give results to the families until the state governor paid for them.

Meanwhile, Abosede revealed she counted more than 10 families present on the day she went to give her own DNA sample. “I could not stay and wait for everybody who came,” she told FIJ. “But while I was there, I saw people that came before me and those who came after me. They were more than 10 families that day alone.”

This claim contradicts the state government’s claim that nobody came to volunteer DNA samples and claim the bodies.

What stood between the Onifades and their slain son was the state-owned LASUTH, its protocol, and Sanwo-Olu. While the process dragged, Pelumi’s body was in a morgue owned by TOS funerals on the LASUTH premises. The morgue is a private company run by Taiwo Ogunsola, a friend of the governor. This is the same company that has now been awarded ₦595,000 to bury Pelumi.


‘THEY CALLED US FOR SECOND DNA TEST AFTER AWARDING CONTRACT’
“On Monday, we got a message asking that we go to the Lagos State DNA centre in CMS,” Abosede told FIJ. “I went there on Thursday. It is on 48, Broad Street, opposite Bookshop. While there, I saw the files from the DNA I did in 2021, but they collected another sample.

“They said they were inviting people again to come and give samples and check for their relatives, but they did not offer any explanation for why they did not use the samples we gave LASUTH.

“We asked them to tell us when to come back for updates, but they told us they would get back to us.”

Abosede said she did not want her son to be part of a mass burial but wanted to take custody of his body so the family could give him a befitting burial.

On Friday, FIJ called Gboyega Akosile, the chief press secretary to the state governor, but he declined our calls. As of press time, he had not responded to a message sent to him.


https://fij.ng/article/lagos-govt-kept-journalist-killed-after-endsars-protest-for-3-years-then-awarded-him-to-sanwo-olus-friend-for-burial/

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Re: How Sanwo Olu Hid Dead Body Of Journalist Killed During Endsars by Racoon(m): 10:07am On Aug 03, 2023
"No evil deed will go unpunished.Any evil done by man to man will be redressed.If not now then later. If not by man then by God. For the victory of evil over good can only be temporary' - Late Dele Giwa.

-"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." -Desmond Tutu.


"....Those who gave up their liberty for their safety doesnt deserves neither their liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin

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Re: How Sanwo Olu Hid Dead Body Of Journalist Killed During Endsars by Racoon(m): 10:07am On Aug 03, 2023
IGNORANCE - When you do not know

STUPIDITY: - When you know and doubt still

FOOLISHNESS: - When you refuse to know but still doubt and show that you know.

MADNESS: - When you know, or refuse to know but don't care in the face of obvious facts.

WISDOM: - When you know or don't know but are ready to play safe for self and others.
Sanwo-Olu you're wicked. All the attempts by you and all the APC mummified zombies with conscience seared with hot iron that shamelessly & wickedly denied all the atrocities committed by the Lagos and Federal troops against innocent citizens on 20-20-2020 will continue to hunt all of you. Very wicked souls.

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Re: How Sanwo Olu Hid Dead Body Of Journalist Killed During Endsars by ANIMABIDR: 10:08am On Aug 03, 2023
Sanwo olu is a failure an a killer

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Re: How Sanwo Olu Hid Dead Body Of Journalist Killed During Endsars by Tiwaz2: 10:08am On Aug 03, 2023
Devil in human body

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Re: How Sanwo Olu Hid Dead Body Of Journalist Killed During Endsars by OmekaguGCFR1: 10:09am On Aug 03, 2023
Foolish blood sucker

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Re: How Sanwo Olu Hid Dead Body Of Journalist Killed During Endsars by ANIMABIDR: 10:23am On Aug 03, 2023
Racoon:

Sanwo-Olu you're wicked. All the attempts by you and all the APC mummified zombies with conscience seared with hot iron that shamelessly & wickedly denied all the atrocities committed by the Lagos and Federal troops against innocent citizens on 20-20-2020 will continue to hunt all of you. Very wicked souls.



My brother ooooo

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Re: How Sanwo Olu Hid Dead Body Of Journalist Killed During Endsars by ANIMABIDR: 10:23am On Aug 03, 2023
OmekaguGCFR1:
Foolish blood sucker

A real devil

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Re: How Sanwo Olu Hid Dead Body Of Journalist Killed During Endsars by bennybuhari: 10:25am On Aug 03, 2023
Evil

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Re: How Sanwo Olu Hid Dead Body Of Journalist Killed During Endsars by 001Lagos: 10:27am On Aug 03, 2023
They hide his body after sucking his blood

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Re: How Sanwo Olu Hid Dead Body Of Journalist Killed During Endsars by BoldBrainz(m): 10:31am On Aug 03, 2023
Waiting for the BAT crew to give explanations on this one...

They'll be here soon to call Peter Obi and blame IPOB.

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Re: How Sanwo Olu Hid Dead Body Of Journalist Killed During Endsars by ANIMABIDR: 10:34am On Aug 03, 2023
001Lagos:
They hide his body after sucking his blood

My brother oooo

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Re: How Sanwo Olu Hid Dead Body Of Journalist Killed During Endsars by ANIMABIDR: 10:44am On Aug 03, 2023
BoldBrainz:
Waiting for the BAT crew to give explanations on this one...

They'll be here soon to call Peter Obi and blame IPOB.


Those fools

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Re: How Sanwo Olu Hid Dead Body Of Journalist Killed During Endsars by ANIMABIDR: 10:49am On Aug 03, 2023
bennybuhari:
Evil

Evil
Re: How Sanwo Olu Hid Dead Body Of Journalist Killed During Endsars by Godwin4444: 10:51am On Aug 03, 2023
Racoon:

Sanwo-Olu you're wicked. All the attempts by you and all the APC mummified zombies with conscience seared with hot iron that shamelessly & wickedly denied all the atrocities committed by the Lagos and Federal troops against innocent citizens on 20-20-2020 will continue to hunt all of you. Very wicked souls.
what do u have to say about this?

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Re: How Sanwo Olu Hid Dead Body Of Journalist Killed During Endsars by Godwin4444: 10:52am On Aug 03, 2023
ANIMABIDR:

On Sunday morning, a letter from the Lagos State Public Procurement Agency (LSPPA) went viral. This letter addressed to the state’s ministry of health confirmed the government’s intention to hold a mass burial for 103 fatal victims of the #EndSARS protest.

According to the letter, the state government awarded a ₦61,285,000 contract to TOS Funerals Limited to bury the bodies, a sum that equates ₦595,000 per body.

However, when Nigerians began to claim the government was finally owning up to the killings at Lekki Tollgate on October 20, 2020, the government responded with a statement saying none of the bodies was recovered from the tollgate, but from other parts of the state.

The state’s health ministry also alleged that after the protest, the chief coroner invited families of victims to claim their bodies but “nobody responded to claim any of the bodies”. This, however, was a lie.

In the aftermath of the #EndSARS violence, the office of the Chief Coroner invited members of the public Throughout public adverts and announcement who had lost loved ones or whose relatives had been declared missing between 19th and 27th October 2020 from various clashes as mentioned above, to contact the department of Pathology and Forensic Medicine of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) to help with identification of these casualties deposited in State-owned morgues. Relatives were to undergo DNA tests for identification purposes. It is important to state categorically that nobody responded to claim any of the bodies.

However, after almost three years, the bodies remain unclaimed, adding to the congestion of the morgues. This spurred the need to decongest the morgues – a procedure that follows very careful medical and legal guidelines in the event that a relative may still turn up to claim a lost relative years after the incident.

— excerpt from Lagos State Ministry of Health statement (July 23, 2023
‘FIRST WE SAW OUR SON’S BODY, THEN IT WENT MISSING AGAIN’
Pelumi Onifade would have been a 23-year-old graduate today had his life not been cut short on October 25, 2020, by a police task force team led by one Yinka Egbeyemi.

The young intern journalist was interviewing a crowd of people assembled at a place where COVID-19 palliative was being looted in Oko Oba, Agege, Lagos, but never lived to tell the story as he first went missing, then found dead.

For five days, Onifade’s family and friends searched frantically for him. Distraught by the news of her son’s death, Abosede Onifade, his mother, was unable to join Olatunde, her husband, and other family members who went to a mortuary in Ikorodu on October 30, 2020, and found Pelumi’s lifeless body.

In a telephone interview with FIJ on Friday, Abosede said she saw the state government’s statement and was disappointed. She said, “They lied, the government lied, they are liars.”

Reliving the horror of the past three years, she told FIJ that contrary to the government’s claim that nobody showed up to claim the bodies, her husband was denied access to Pelumi’s body in 2020, and when they went back for it, the mortuary staff told them the body was no longer there.

The body would later be transferred to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), where the family was asked to do a DNA test to confirm if the deceased was their child.

‘WE DID DNA TEST, NEVER GOT RESULT BECAUSE OF SANWO-OLU’
In 2021, the Onifade family took their search to LASUTH hoping they could get Pelumi’s body and give him a befitting burial, but it was harder than they imagined.

Speaking with FIJ at the time, Olatunde said, “When we went to LASUTH, a doctor asked for our son’s name and we told him. He further informed us that autopsies had been carried on the bodies brought to the facility. He then advised us to take a DNA test and we did, but we never got the result.”

On Friday, Abosede said she and her husband submitted full-size pictures of themselves and gave samples for the test but were never invited for the results.

She said when they both pressed for answers, the doctor revealed to them that Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the State Governor, had taken responsibility for the tests and the hospital could not give results to the families until the state governor paid for them.

Meanwhile, Abosede revealed she counted more than 10 families present on the day she went to give her own DNA sample. “I could not stay and wait for everybody who came,” she told FIJ. “But while I was there, I saw people that came before me and those who came after me. They were more than 10 families that day alone.”

This claim contradicts the state government’s claim that nobody came to volunteer DNA samples and claim the bodies.

What stood between the Onifades and their slain son was the state-owned LASUTH, its protocol, and Sanwo-Olu. While the process dragged, Pelumi’s body was in a morgue owned by TOS funerals on the LASUTH premises. The morgue is a private company run by Taiwo Ogunsola, a friend of the governor. This is the same company that has now been awarded ₦595,000 to bury Pelumi.


‘THEY CALLED US FOR SECOND DNA TEST AFTER AWARDING CONTRACT’
“On Monday, we got a message asking that we go to the Lagos State DNA centre in CMS,” Abosede told FIJ. “I went there on Thursday. It is on 48, Broad Street, opposite Bookshop. While there, I saw the files from the DNA I did in 2021, but they collected another sample.

“They said they were inviting people again to come and give samples and check for their relatives, but they did not offer any explanation for why they did not use the samples we gave LASUTH.

“We asked them to tell us when to come back for updates, but they told us they would get back to us.”

Abosede said she did not want her son to be part of a mass burial but wanted to take custody of his body so the family could give him a befitting burial.

On Friday, FIJ called Gboyega Akosile, the chief press secretary to the state governor, but he declined our calls. As of press time, he had not responded to a message sent to him.


https://fij.ng/article/lagos-govt-kept-journalist-killed-after-endsars-protest-for-3-years-then-awarded-him-to-sanwo-olus-friend-for-burial/
if what happened at lekki is a massacre what do u have to say about this?

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Re: How Sanwo Olu Hid Dead Body Of Journalist Killed During Endsars by ANIMABIDR: 10:53am On Aug 03, 2023
Godwin4444:
what do u have to say about this?

So did you read the Article or you want to be like your father?

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Re: How Sanwo Olu Hid Dead Body Of Journalist Killed During Endsars by ANIMABIDR: 10:53am On Aug 03, 2023
Godwin4444:
if what happened at lekki is a massacre what do u have to say about this?


Shame for your Papa

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Re: How Sanwo Olu Hid Dead Body Of Journalist Killed During Endsars by olisaEze(m): 10:56am On Aug 03, 2023
Are we still in a democracy or is this party a military junta??

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Re: How Sanwo Olu Hid Dead Body Of Journalist Killed During Endsars by Tmb78(m): 10:56am On Aug 03, 2023
Godwin4444:
what do u have to say about this?
Your question will be met with a deafening silence.
Or have you not heard?

YORUBA LIVES MATTER MORE!😂😂

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Re: How Sanwo Olu Hid Dead Body Of Journalist Killed During Endsars by Godwin4444: 10:56am On Aug 03, 2023
BoldBrainz:
Waiting for the BAT crew to give explanations on this one...

They'll be here soon to call Peter Obi and blame IPOB.
what do u have to say about this?

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Re: How Sanwo Olu Hid Dead Body Of Journalist Killed During Endsars by ANIMABIDR: 10:58am On Aug 03, 2023
Tmb78:
Your question will be met with a deafening silence.
Or have you not heard?

YORUBA LIVES MATTER MORE!😂😂


It's now Yoruba lives no more Nigerians kills in lekki?


Bola did not only fuvk with the brains of omulabi Muslims but he fuvked that of your parents too

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Re: How Sanwo Olu Hid Dead Body Of Journalist Killed During Endsars by Godwin4444: 11:00am On Aug 03, 2023
Tmb78:
Your question will be met with a deafening silence.
Or have you not heard?

YORUBA LIVES MATTER MORE!😂😂
I thought as much cos how can a particular tribe b obsessed about lekki that we didn’t see any corpses but ignored what happened in their own region where corpses were floating on water n we all could see

That’s y I don’t take them serious

They care about what happened in lekki but looked away at what happened in anambra

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Re: How Sanwo Olu Hid Dead Body Of Journalist Killed During Endsars by Tmb78(m): 11:00am On Aug 03, 2023
ANIMABIDR:



It's now Yoruba lives no more Nigerians kills in lekki?


Bola did not only fuvk with the brains of omulabi Muslims but he fuvked that of your parents too
You are still addressing Yoruba Muslim
Let me know when you will address me a Yoruba Christian.
Till then, shalom!

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Re: How Sanwo Olu Hid Dead Body Of Journalist Killed During Endsars by Godwin4444: 11:01am On Aug 03, 2023
ANIMABIDR:



It's now Yoruba lives no more Nigerians kills in lekki?


Bola did not only fuvk with the brains of omulabi Muslims but he fuvked that of your parents too
what do u have to say about d floating corpses?

Are they not human?

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Re: How Sanwo Olu Hid Dead Body Of Journalist Killed During Endsars by Christistruth03: 11:01am On Aug 03, 2023
When you are done you will publish the report of the Anambra Akwusu Sars Massacre Judicial Panel Report which nobody has seen yet

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Re: How Sanwo Olu Hid Dead Body Of Journalist Killed During Endsars by Godwin4444: 11:01am On Aug 03, 2023
ANIMABIDR:


So did you read the Article or you want to be like your father?
y reply with insult

What do u have to say about d floating corpses?

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Re: How Sanwo Olu Hid Dead Body Of Journalist Killed During Endsars by Godwin4444: 11:02am On Aug 03, 2023
ANIMABIDR:



Shame for your Papa
what do u have to say about floating corpses?

I guess they don’t need justice cos it’s done by d one u love?

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Re: How Sanwo Olu Hid Dead Body Of Journalist Killed During Endsars by Tmb78(m): 11:03am On Aug 03, 2023
Godwin4444:
I thought as much cos how can a particular tribe b obsessed about lekki that we didn’t see any corpses but ignored what happened in their own region where corpses were floating on water n we all could see

That’s y I don’t take them serious

They care about what happened in lekki but looked away at what happened in anambra
As in, Jesus!!!
I have never seen a more obsessed tribe with anything Yoruba before!

Those Igbo guys killed mercilessly just died for nothing without their people asking questions.
If you ask questions, they will tell you to mind your business.
I wonder what this is now

In fact, I give up on them.

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Re: How Sanwo Olu Hid Dead Body Of Journalist Killed During Endsars by freeborn02: 11:04am On Aug 03, 2023
Godwin4444:
what do u have to say about this?

Now, you agree that soldiers actually murdered peaceful protesters at lagos tollgate. You denied for years.

Shame on you

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Re: How Sanwo Olu Hid Dead Body Of Journalist Killed During Endsars by Godwin4444: 11:06am On Aug 03, 2023
Tmb78:
As in, Jesus!!!
I have never seen a more obsessed tribe with anything Yoruba before!

Those Igbo guys killed mercilessly just died for nothing without their people asking questions.
If you ask questions, they will tell you to mind your business.
I wonder what this is now

In fact, I give up on them.
I tire for them ooo

They have all gone mute

Imagine, na u create thread I come ask u simple question for the thread wey u create. U no fit answer n then u resort to insult

Just imagine

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Re: How Sanwo Olu Hid Dead Body Of Journalist Killed During Endsars by Godwin4444: 11:08am On Aug 03, 2023
freeborn02:


Now, you agree that soldiers actually murdered peaceful protesters at lagos tollgate. You denied for years.

Shame on you
yes we agree but what do u have to say about this one

At least obi killed people before sanwo olu

If u so much care about human life to that extent y ignore that of obi n cry on that of sanwo olu

At least we all agreed the two killed

Two thieves stole n were caught but u want a particular thief jailed cos he’s not from your tribe but u ain’t talking about d thief from your tribe b u are claiming u want Justice

Again

What do u have to say about that obi picture?

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