EndBadGovernance: Police, Military didn’t fire live ammunition – IG

The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has denied that the police, military and other security agencies did not use excessive force on #EndBadGovernance protesters.

Egbetokun stated this at a meeting of security agencies heads in Abuja on Tuesday.

He noted that rather, there were attacks on security agents deployed to manage the protests.

According to him, the military and police did not use live ammunition during the protests.

Egbetokun said, “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. All that we have used is teargas and nothing more. “