November 30, (THEWILL) – The Lagos State Government has released the White Paper on the State Judicial Panel of Inquiry report of Lekki Toll Gate Incident Investigation.
Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso disclosed this on Tuesday night.
He said the full document would be made available shortly.
A White Paper is an administrative medium for conveying the decision or position of the government on the report of an administrative or judicial enquiry.
The judicial panel had on November 15, 2021, submitted its reports – one, on cases of police brutality in the state and another on the incident of the shooting of protesters at the Lekki Tollgate on October 20, 2020
The State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, had said during the submission of the Panel Report, said he will set up a committee to come up with a white paper on the recommendations of the panel.
“We will ensure that the recommendations that are coming out that will be turned into a white paper and would be made available to the public,” Sanwo-Olu said while receiving copies of the reports.
But in a speech on Tuesday on the Lekki shootings of October 20, 2020, he said, “As an administration, we are determined that the next steps that will be taken in this process of coming to terms with the events of October 2020, must bring closure to a painful episode in the history of our state, with the release of the White Paper later today.”
