Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n
Former Director Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Sani Usman on Thursday claimed that Military personnel who shot protesters at Lekki toll gate used \u2018blank ammunition.<\/p>\n
Usman in an interview with Arise News said the blank ammunition used to disperse protesters has little or no effect on its target.<\/p>\n
Recall that the Army had earlier denied that its officers were present at the scene of the shooting.<\/p>\n
But on Wednesday, the 81 Division of the Nigerian Army (NA) revealed that the Lagos State Government invited the military to intervene during the End SARS protests.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Thursday Usman said, \u201cIf you look at the canisters, they were blank ammo and blank ammo don\u2019t even kill. At a close range, maybe 100metres \u2013 maybe it will have some pigmentation on your skin.<\/p>\n
\u201cRemember the military are armed and by the nature of their training, they are trained to kill and I think the military in its wisdom instead of using live ammunition decided to use blank armour which is meant for training.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think they should be commended for that otherwise there would have been serious collateral damage, but they were professional enough to have done that.\u201d<\/p>\n