The management of Loatsad Promomedia Limited, which manages the Lekki Toll gate in Lagos State, has explained why the billboard was turned off, before soldiers started shooting at EndSARS protesters on Tuesday.
The company is owned by Seyi Tinubu, one of the sons of the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
Shortly after the billboard was switched off, soldiers opened fire on EndSARS protesters.
In a statement issued on its Instagram page on Wednesday, the company said the action was carried out in compliance with the curfew imposed by the state government.
The statement reads: “When the ‘EndSars and ‘say no to police brutality’ protests started from day one, we wholly supported the movement and used all our platforms to promote the messages (I believe the promoters can verify this information) as we believed in the cause.
“On Tuesday, when the curfew was announced we heeded the governor’s warnings and didn’t want our staff in any danger, hence by 3pm our staff had been ordered to leave the site and the board was switched off based on the governor’s curfew request.
“We had no idea what was going to happen and we feel the same anguish, pain and shock at the events that unfolded and our hearts and prayers go out to the victims and families of this ungodly act.”
