• LSHA holds parallel hearing on EndSARS protest The Lagos State House of Assembly has opened a parallel investigation into the EndSARS protests in the state. The House of Assembly is conducting a three-day public hearing to determine the level damage suffered by victims and the amount of compensation for them. The Deputy Speaker, WASIU ESHINLOKUN-SANNI, said…
The International Criminal Court is now looking to the violence that greeted the recent EndSARS protests in Nigeria. The office of the ICC Prosecutor, FATOU BENSOUDA, confirmed that it has received information on alleged crimes during the protest. According to a report; the ICC intends to determine whether the alleged crimes are enough to open an investigation…
An ICT expert has called for a forensic investigation into the CCTV camera at the Lekki Tollgate to determine what happened to EndSARS protesters who came under gun attack by men in military uniform on October 20, 2020. Our source said the investigation will help to determine why the CCTV allegedly stopped recording during the shooting of…
Amnesty International says it has evidence to show that soldiers from Bonny Camp were responsible for the shooting of protesters at the Lekki Phase One Tollgate in Lagos on Tuesday last week. The international rights group said it had tracked vehicles belonging to the Nigerian Army from Bonny Camp to the Lekki Toll Gate, using photographs and…
• Ubani doubts Independence of Panel The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has called for an international commission of inquiry on the shooting of EndSARS protesters in Lekki, Lagos State. SERAP made the request in a message to the United Nations and the African Union, eight days after the incident at the Lekki Phase-One Toll Gate…
The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality and Shooting of EndSARS Protesters in Lekki has adjourned sitting after entertaining one petitioner on its opening session. The Panel had fixed four petitions for hearing on its maiden sitting at the Lagos Court of Arbitration in Lekki but three of the petitioners were not present to…