Amnesty International UK has shortlisted CNN’s Lekki Tollgate investigative report for the Amnesty UK Media Awards 2021.
The investigation was shortlisted under the Broadcast News category, alongside BBC Africa Eye: Lagos Inferno: The Explosion that Rocked Nigeria; Channel 4 News: Carers in Scotland denied death in service payment; and Sky News: Yemen’s Humanitarian Crisis.
The Amnesty Media Award, which has been running for 29 years, aims at recognising the vital role journalists play and the serious risks they face in highlighting human rights abuses around the world.
The CNN investigation turned into accomplished after the Lekki toll gate capturing.
In October 2020, young Nigerians protested across major towns in opposition to police brutality. The organised protest went on peacefully for days till the Nigerian army forcefully dispersed marchers who were keeping vigil at the Lekki Toll Plaza on October 20.
Many fatalities were recorded however the authorities keep to deny wrongdoing notwithstanding portions of evidence which include the ones highlighted through the CNN record amongst other exclusives pronounced with the aid of Peoples Gazette.
Non-kingdom actors, nudged with the aid of authorities sellers additionally hijacked the protest inside the aftermath of Lekki capturing, wreaking carnage on public utilities and harassing harmless citizens.
The Nigerian Army called all allegations that it fired into the group “fake news” however later instructed a judicial panel of inquiry that it did no longer shoot at any civilian, however the CNN investigation, posted on November 18, exposed proof that Nigerian protection forces opened fireplace on unarmed protesters.
The judging panel for the awards have been made up of excessive-profile UK newshounds and Amnesty representatives.
The winners of every class can be announced at a digital occasion on Wednesday 28 April.
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