The Nigerian Government has threatened to sanction a foreign media outlet, CNN, over its report on the alleged shooting of #EndSARS protesters by soldiers at the Lekki toll plaza on October 20, 2020.
The Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed Lai Mohammed made the threats while reacting to the investigations released by CNN on Wednesday, he said that the government might be forced to sanction the foreign news medium.
Describing the report by CNN as irresponsible Journalism, Mohammed held that the occurrence of October 20, 2020, was ‘a massacre without dead bodies’.
Further insisting that no lives were lost during the protest, the minister said that the families alleged to have lost a family member during the shooting have not produced a single body.
Calling for the sanction of CNN, Mohammed said that the foreign news medium relied on unverified social media videos to curate its report.
He also blamed Nigerian celebrities for aggravating the violence that consumed the nation by circulating fake news.
Recall that Newsblenda had earlier on Wednesday reported that CNN released an investigation that contradicted the claims of the Federal government on the incident that happened at the Lekki tollgate in Lagos.
