By The Cable News Network (CNN) has retracted its initial report, which said operatives of the Nigerian Army killed 38 protesters on October 20, 2020, at the Lekki Tollgate in Lagos State.
The international media organisation made the retraction via a tweet titled “Clarification” posted on its Twitter handle, on Thursday at about 10:05pm Nigerian time.
The CNN said it did not attribute the death toll to Amnesty International and also failed to clarify that the reported 38 persons killed was for the protests across the country, not just for Lekki Toll Gate.
“Clarification: This tweet from October 23 did not attribute the death toll from protests in Nigeria to Amnesty International. The tweet also did not make it clear that the death toll was for protests across the country,” the tweet read.
Recall the Nigerian Government, through the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, had written a protest letter to the Management of CNN complaining about the authenticity of a report that put together various videos of the Lekki Tollgate shooting. The international media organisation, however, responded by releasing a Part 2 of the report.
