Wale Ajetumobi, the Senior Special Assistant On Print Media to Governor Babajide Sanwo has been suspended after making a careless remark on the social media.
The governor suspended Ajetumobi after serious backlash from netizens over his comment that some persons who took part in the October 2020 #endsars protests in the state had been ‘executed’.
His suspension was announced in a statement on Tuesday by Governor Sanwo-olu Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Gboyega Akosile, titled, ‘Governor Sanwo-Olu suspends aide.’
The statement said Ajetumobi was suspended following his ‘ misrepresentation of facts on his personal X account,” that some of those who took part in the protests were executed by security forces.
The governor said the state is against “any form of extra-judicial punishment and will not be a part of any such action. That is not who we are. That is not our way.”
What Ajetumobi said;
Premium Times, on Sunday, November 24, 2024, reported a tweet by Ajetunmobi, tweeting as #Riddwane, in which he revealed that arsonists who burnt down the Television Continental station in Lagos during the heat of the 2020 #EndSARS protest, had been “hunted down and executed.Credit: Premium Times
The suspended aide also stated that one of the “executed” arsonists was a young boy (name undisclosed) who traded in cooking gas around the Ketu area of the state.
Ajetunmobi alleged that the boy was found with an AK-47 rifle.
The tweet read, “The full story of people who burnt down TVC in 2020 will be told one day, with gory clips and images. One thing to note: majority of them have been hunted down and executed.
“One of them, a young boy trading in cooking gas around Ketu, was found with an AK-47 at the site. Even his neighbours were shocked. But the full gist is better saved for later.”
On October 8, 2020 many youths across the country, under the aegis of #endsars protested the extra-judicial killings by now defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, an elite force in the Nigerian Police Force, NPF.
In Lagos, the epicentre of the protest, many protesters were believed to have been killed at Lekki Toll Gate by soldiers sent to disperse the protesters by the government.
The alleged extra-judicial killings, even though had been denied by the military attracted serious backlash from local and international human rights bodies.
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