ENDSARS<\/a> protest, there was no time personnel of 81 Division Nigerian Army Lagos were involved,\u201d\u2018 he said.<\/p>\nHe continued that the decision to call in the military was taken by the Lagos State Government (LASG) after a 24 hours curfew was imposed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was as a result of the violence which led to several police stations being burnt, policemen killed, suspects in police custody released and weapons carted away.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe situation was fast degenerating into anarchy. It was at this point that LASG requested for the military to intervene in order to restore normalcy.\u201d<\/p>\n
The intervention of the military followed all laid down procedures, the statement continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the soldiers involved acted within the confines of the Rules of Engagement (ROE) for internal security operations.<\/p>\n
The Army reiterated that it did not shoot at any civilian. \u201cThere are glaring and convincing evidence to attest to this fact.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis allegation is the handwork of mischief makers who will stop at nothing to tarnish the image of the Nigerian Army. The general public is hereby enjoined to discountenance this allegation as there is no iota of truth therein.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
#EndSARS: Nigerian Army Denies Lekki Shooting, Says Lagos Invited Military to Restore Order The Nigerian Army has disassociated itself from \u201ca viral video on social media in which it was alleged that civilian protesters were massacred by soldiers at Lekki Toll Plaza\u201d. According to a statement issued by Acting Deputy Director Public Relations of 81 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[369],"tags":[375,376,373,377],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Nigeria-army.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pci3ty-f2","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}