Endsars Lekki Toll Massacre:: Akpofure Urge President Buhari To Grant Arrested Soldier Presidential Pardon

By Storm Mbarka

Mr Ogaga Akpofure ,  Chief Executive  Officer of Transparency and Scorecard

Centre , a Nigerian Citizen based in the US has reacted to a publication made by the Nigerian Guardian Newspaper on the 21st of October 2020  reported by Dennis Erezi in the papers Metro Column which  alledged that a Nigerian Soldier was arrested for asking his colleagues not to fire at the  harmless and peacefull protesters at the Lekki toll gate.

Mr Ogaga Akpofure who spoke via skipe 

  called on Nigerians at home and in Diaspora to advocate  for the release of the  soldier allegedly arrested  by the military authority for asking his  colleagues  not to open fire on  the  peacefull protesters. 

Akpofure ,the international Activist observed that , speaking up against injustice no matter  whose ox is gord is the shortest path to an egalitarian society. 

He lamented that  it is indeed absurd for an authority mandated to protect  people to  easily turn around to be so  brutish on  them when Nigeria  is not at war with another nation. 

Akpofure  the Transparency Score Card boss called on President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene by using the instruments of his good office to grant that soldier Presidential pardon  by directing that the  patriotic Nigerian Citizen in uniform  should  be released without any  further delay.