Lekki Concession Company (LCC) has said that CCTV cameras at Lekki Tollgate stopped working at 8p.m. on Oct. 20, the day military men alleged shot at unarmed #EndSARS protesters.
Managing Director of LCC, Mr Abayomi Omomuwasi, made the disclosure while testifying during proceedings of Lagos #EndSARS Judicial Panel on Tuesday.
Led in evidence by his lawyer, Mr Rotimi Seriki, Omomuwasi said that the cameras stopped working due to network issues.
“We never tampered with the surveillance camera, that is why we have footage until 8 p.m. when it stopped recording.
“It was around 8.p.m. that we did not get any CCTV recording. It stopped recording because of network issues with the system.
“The major cause is that we have the network that connects our cameras together at Ikoyi Link Bridge, Chevron office and the Lekki Tollgate.
“What brings them together is resident at the Ikoyi Toll gate plaza which has been burnt,” the LCC boss said.
Omomuwasi said that the surveillance equipment at the tollgate had been upgraded to global standards and that the surveillance footage could go as far as 1.75km and 2km on either side.
He noted that audio was not activated in the surveillance cameras because they were used solely for traffic management.
The LCC boss said that the no CCTV camera was removed hours before the shooting on Oct. 20.
“Early in the morning of Oct. 20 around 10 a.m. we noticed that they started tampering with our equipment and we decided to harvest our equipment because they are very important, expensive,” he said.
He said that on Oct. 20, the automatic plate number recognition camera was removed as well as other equipment such as laptops.
Omomuwasi noted that the LCC is 100 per cent owned by the Lagos State Government and its sources of revenue were tolling revenue and adverts on the road.
He said that the adverts were outsourced to private advertising agencies to maximise revenue, adding that LCC was not involved in supplying power to the signage at the tollgate.
Source: NAN
