The Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun on Tuesday insisted that the police, military and other security agencies never used excessive force on the #EndBadGovernance protesters.
Egbetokun stated this during the meeting of security agency heads, which was held in Abuja, even as he added that there were attacks on security operatives deployed to manage the protests.
According to the IGP, “The police and the military and indeed no other security agency involved in the management of this protest has deployed excessive use of force.
“Instead, what we had were attacks on security agents during the protest.
“From our record, there were no shooting incidents by the police.
“The police or military did not use any live ammunition in the management of these protests.
“Instead, we have had cases where our officers were injured and are in critical condition as we speak.
“I will dismiss that as fake news and very wrong allegations. We didn’t use excessive force at all.
“We didn’t even deploy the whole of our strength in this protest, even when it turned violent.
“We have water cannons we did not deploy, we have rubber bullets, we didn’t use them. All that we have used is tear-gas and nothing more.”
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