“I appreciate the efforts of the Nigerian Army during the #EndSARS’ protest.
“Many people criticised them for coming out during the protest but it was good they came out when the police could no longer handle the situation,” he said.
The monarch’s comment is despite a report by the state Judicial Panel of Inquiry to investigate cases of brutality, which described the October 20, 2020 incident as a massacre.
The panel also established that the Nigerian military shot live bullets, killed several protesters, and took corpses away in their vans.
But Mr. Akinolu argued that the military’s intervention cushioned the situation.
“The Army’s intervention calmed the situation, and I also thank the almighty Allah that nobody died in the palace during the incident,” he said.
