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Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo promised justice for the victims who were shot during Tuesday’s protest at the Lekki tollbooth in the Lagos shopping center.
Amnesty International has said that at least 12 people were killed by soldiers and police at two locations in the city, although the Nigerian military dismissed the reports as “fake news”.
Witnesses have told the BBC that men in military camouflage fired at protesters.
The vice president said that some policemen were also killed “in different parts of Lagos and other states.”
“The pain of these terrible events is palpable in our towns and cities, and some losses are irreplaceable, but we can and will obtain justice for all of them,” Osinbajo said Thursday in a series of tweets.
His consolation follows the worldwide condemnation of the crackdown on protesters, who initially wanted police reforms but have broadened their demands to include reforms in the way the country is run.
The vice president said he had visited the hospital with some of the victims.
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