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Published 12 March 2021
A petitioner, Marc Chidibere Nwadi, has been awarded N7.5 million by the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Restitution and Inquiry set up to investigate cases of police brutality especially involving officers of the now-defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad.
The petitioner had complained that he spent six years in the prison without trial.
Nwadi had alleged that his long stay in prison was because he could not offer a bribe.
Chairperson of the panel, Doris Okuwobi, delivered the judgment on Friday.
She upheld that the petitioner suffered unduly in the hands of police officers.
Okuwobi subsequently presented a cheque of N7.5 million to the petitioner on behalf of the state government.
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The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Restitution and Inquiry set up to investigate cases of police brutality, especially involving officers of the now-defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad, has summoned the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammad Adamu.
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The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Restitution and Inquiry set up to investigate cases of police brutality, especially involving officers of the now-defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad, has summoned the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammad Adamu.
The IGP was summoned over a case involving one Adewale Adewuyi, a petitioner whose 26 acres of farmland was allegedly seized by police since 2013.
Debo Adeleke, the petitioner’s lawyer, alleged that the police invaded the farmland located at Age-Mowo near Badagry on December 17, 2013, and destroyed it.
The development, the counsel said, affected the health status of his client.
Adeleke, who asked the panel to summon the IGP, said his client – brought on a stretcher – could not feed himself after the incident.