The Commissioner of Police in charge of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport Command in Lagos is to appear before the Lagos State Judicial Panel on SARS. The Panel summoned the Airport Police Command CP alongside the Divisional Police Officer for Olosan Police Station, and an officer identified as Oosa. The Chairman of the Panel, retired Justice Doris…
The Lagos State Judicial Panel has heard a new petition involving one Akinmade Akinrolabu, who is blaming the police for the death of his wife. Akinrolabu appeared before the Panel without the help of a lawyer and to testify how his wife developed complication after she watched as he was being beaten by policemen. The Petitioner claimed…
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 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…
The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police brutality and the shooting of EndSARS protesters has heard how SARS operatives tortured a businessman until he could no longer walk. Lasgidi FM’s NAJITE ATIRENE reports that the victim, NDUKWE EKEKWE appeared before the Panel as it resumed sitting for the fourth day at the International Centre for…
Ogun State, Governor DAPO ABIODUN has put Justice SOLOMON OLUGBEMI in charge of the Judicial Panel on SARS. Governor ABIODUN said he decided to set up the panel following resolutions reached at the meeting of the National Economic Council on Thursday last week. He said the Judicial Panel comes with a support fund, offices, forensic laboratory, and…