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At his first appearance before the panel last Tuesday, Muri-Okunola said injuries recorded in the aftermath of the Lekki shooting were predominantly fractures, machete wounds, and minor cuts.
“At the time we were there, most of the injuries were all in the nature of cuts, bruises from machetes’ wounds, and stampede. Nobody at the hospitals said they were shot at,” he said.
During his cross-examination yesterday, one of the EndSARS counsel, Fusika told Muri-Okunola that his last testimony contradicts what doctors from Reddington and other hospitals that treated victims of the shooting told the panel. According to Fusika, the video clip presented by the Head of Service during his last testimony was edited.
Although the counsel representing the state government, Abiodun Owonikoko, raised an objection to the line of question, the panel allowed the question.
Responding to the question, Muri-Okunola said the video clip presented was the way it was “because cameras were not admitted at a point during the hospital visit.” He added that the government only tendered the “relevant portion of the clip.
Amidst the numerous questions thrown at him by counsels to #EndSARS protesters, Muri-Okunola insisted that at the time the governor visited the hospital, they were informed that there were no persons with gunshot injuries. Fusika presented records from the hospitals that treated victims of gunshot injuries, asking the Head of Service to react to them.
“Either the hospital misled the governor or the governor misunderstood. We were informed by Reddington, Lekki, that the patients were not shot”Muri-Okunola said.
The chairperson of the panel, Justice Doris Okuwobi, adjourned the matter till July 3.
