ANALYSIS: #EndSARS: How Lagos Judicial Panel has fared in six months
A total number of 235 petitions were received by the panel between October to December 2020.
On October 19, 2020, the Lagos state government set up a nine-man
Judicial Panel of Inquiry to investigate cases of brutality and human rights violations perpetrated by operatives of the Nigerian Police Force and the dissolved Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).
The panel was set up as a response to one of the demands of youth during the #EndSARS protests, which is investigating cases of police brutality and providing restitution to the victims.
While inaugurating the panel, the Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said it was “in line with the resolution of the National Economic Council on October 15, 2020, chaired by the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo.”
#EndSARS: Four petitioners get N16 25m cheques at Lagos Panel
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#EndSARS: Panel awards N16 million to four victims
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Shola Soyele
Updated February 2, 2021
(FILE) Members of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution at a sitting on November 28, 2020.
A 64-year-old woman, Taiwo Idehen has told the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry how operatives of the Nigeria Police allegedly brutalised her in May 2018.
Idehen, who was the fourth petitioner during Tuesday’s panel session, took the witness box to explain how police operatives manhandled her which led to the damage to her teeth.
The petitioner said she got a call from a policeman that her attention was needed at Alagbon police station after two of her children had been arrested in respect of the burial of her late husband.