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 Lagos State Judicial Panel on Police Brutality and Restitution resumes sitting today, after the Christmas and New Year holidays. The Judicial Panel is also looking into the allegation of shooting of EndSARS protesters at the Lekki Tollgate on October 20, 2020. The resumption of the Judicial Panel comes two weeks after it adjourned sitting on December…
The Lagos State Judicial Panel has resumed sitting for the seventeenth day, with seven petitions lined up for consideration today. Lasgidi FM’s NAJITE ATIRENE reports that the first petition to be considered by the Panel today is that of a couple OKWUCHUKWU and NZUBE OBECHINA. However; the lawyer to the respondent, NOSA WATSON, asked the panel to…
It appears that the Inspector General of Police, MOHAMMED ADAMU, is not aware of the lawsuit filed on behalf of the Nigeria Police Force, seeking to stop the ongoing judicial panels of inquiry into allegations of police brutality. This is because I.G.P. ADAMU has ordered an investigation into the lawsuit which was filed before a Federal High…