Repairs have started at the Lekki Tollgate in Lagos, where soldiers allegedly opened fire on EndSARS protesters on October 20, last year. The Lekki Tollgate was first closed on October 12, 2020, as the EndSARS protests, which started in Ikeja area of Lagos, spread to other parts of the city. The move to reopen the Tollgate comes…
Action resumed Wednesday, January 27, 2021, at the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality and Restitution, which is sitting at the International Court of Arbitration in Lekki. Lasgidi FM’s NAJITE ATIRENE was on ground and reports that the Panel admitted in evidence a newspaper report of a SARS officer who was mobbed to death…
One TELLA ADESANYA has told the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality that he was wrongfully arrested and detained for three days in 2018. TELLA ADESANYA said he was detained on the false allegations that he escaped after knocking down a pedestrian. The petitioner went ahead to present some documents and pictures as evidence…
• Woman identifies her father in trending video of Police killings during EndSARS protest The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality has added Wednesdays to its sitting so as to complete its assignment within six months. At today’s sitting, CSP ADEKUNLE HAKEEM ADETOKUNBO appeared as a police witness in the case of FELICIA OKPARA,…
The Lagos State Judicial Panel on SARS says it has paid for a forensic examination of the alleged shooting of EndSARS protesters at the Lekki Tollgate on October 20 last year. The Chairman of the panel, retired Justice DORIS OKUWOBI, made this known at the resumption of sitting on Tuesday, January 5, 2021, after the yuletide break.…
The Oyo State Police Command has raised alarm over the speed at which some people are quick to take the law into their hand. This follows the increasing number of mob attacks leading to the loss of life of persons caught in alleged crimes in the state capital, Ibadan. The Police Command said such cases have become…