When the Cable News Network (CNN) briefed my Law Firm in October 2020 to represent them and their reporters before the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on restitution for victims of SARS related abuses and other matters (EndSARS Panel), the (one-sided) battle line between CNN and the federal government of Nigeria (FG) had already been drawn.
The FG, through its spokesman/minister of information and culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed would stop at nothing to browbeat and bully the biggest news agency in the World for daring to air news on the Lekki Toll gate shooting and worst of all, caption it a ‘massacre’.
