Barely two hours after PRNigeria exposed the fake report in the claim by the Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia that 120 unarmed protesters were killed by the Nigerian Army at the Lekki Toll Plaza last year, the website has now reduced the casualty figure to 12.
PRNigeria had earlier on Wednesday reported that Wikipedia was still claiming that 120 civilians died at Lekki on October 20, 2020 despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
While Wikipedia relied on a press statement by Amnesty International for the fictitious figure, PRNigeria disclosed that the human rights organisation only mentioned 12 persons allegedly killed in Lekki and Alausa in Lagos State.
To make matters worse for Fake news peddlers, the Lagos state Government has rejected the unproven claim that 9 persons died, adding that only one person died of gunshot injury in Lekki on that night.
Wikipedia had kept the false casualty figure of 120 on its website for 13 months only to replace it with 12 two hours after PRNigeria exposed the contradiction.