The Lagos State Judicial Panel on SARS resumed sitting Tuesday, December 1, 2020, to consider petitions by victims of police brutality.
These include NDUKWE EKEKWE, who alleged that he was thrown off a two-storey building by SARS operatives and became paralysed.
EKEKWE was cross-examined by a lawyer for the police, EMMANUEL EZE, who alleged that the petitioner jumped off the two-storey building in an attempt to escape.
EMMANUEL EZE also told the Panel that the petitioner was served a search warrant for allegedly dealing in stolen goods.
However; NDUKWE EKEKWE denied the claim by the police lawyer, insisting that it was the SARS operatives who arrested him that pushed him off the building.
EKEKWE also denied ever seeing a copy of the search warrant which the police lawyer presented before the Panel.
He also denied the lawyer’s claim that he visited a medical doctor at the National Orthopedic Hospital, Igbobi.
The Chairman of the panel, Justice DORIS OKUWOBI, later adjourned all the matter to December 8, 2020.
Justice OKUWOBI said that was the last chance for the police officers who allegedly tortured NDUKWE EKEKWE to appear.
Meanwhile; when the second petition involving one OLAJIDE FOWOTADE was called, the police officers who allegedly tortured and broke his teeth again failed to appear before the panel.
Also during Tuesday sitting, the Lagos Judicial Panel dismissed a petition filed by one PASCAL BONU for breach of the court process.
The Panel Chairperson, Justice DORIS OKUWOBI, took the decision because the matter BONU brought before the panel is already on appeal at the Supreme Court.
Lasgidi FM’s NAJITE ATIRENE reports that Justice OKUWOBI declared that the case was incompetent, lacking in merit, and an abuse of court.