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In a statement by Major Haruna Mohammed Sani, Assistant Director Army Public Relations, the Army said no single protester was killed; rather that the soldiers who dispersed the protest fired teargas and warning shots into the air “as some of the non-violent means of crowd dispersal and to further prevent own troops from being lynched by the mob.”

A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria, who was at the park at about 7am on Saturday, reports that more than 30 patrol vehicles belonging to the Nigeria Police, Department of State Services, Lagos State Task Force and OP MESA (military) were parked around.