Following the requests made by the Edo State Association of the Deaf through the Edo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry for victims of SARS and related abuses to the State government, the governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has promised to offset the hospital bills of two of its members allegedly shot by members of the Nigerian Police and the Nigerian Army during the #EndSARS protest in Benin City.
In the petition titled “EndSARS Tragedy: Shooting and Hospitalisation of Two Deaf Men: Mr. Bright Osarobo and Mr. Osazee Festus, call for Justice” signed by its chairman, Kingsley Eromosele, and presented to the state judicial panel of inquiry, stated that it was disturbing that two unarmed innocent deaf men were victims of the excessive use of brute force to quell a peaceful protest by citizens.
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#EndSARS: I’ve not seen my husband 8 yrs after arrest, woman cries out
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By Ozioruva Aliu
A middle-aged woman, Mrs Rita Okungbowa, yesterday, told the Edo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry for victims of SARS and related abuses that she has not seen her husband for the past eight years after he was arrested by men of the now-disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS.
She told the panel that her husband, a Benin movie director, Prince Osayande Okungbowa, was tagged a kidnapper and was taken away by men of SARS and that every effort to know where he was incarcerated has proven abortive.
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A 47-year-old man, Anthony Ogbevon, on Friday approached the Edo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry for victims of SARS and related abuses to seek financial compensation of N50 million for being wrongly paraded as a criminal suspect by the police on June 8, 2020.
Addressing Journalists after meeting with the panel members, the petitioner, Ogbevon said he was arrested and dragged to the police station by some vigilante group on the allegation that he was a kidnapper.
He said the police who were called in did not do any investigation but instead paraded him alongside other suspects and impounded his vehicle.
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A petitioner, Mr Anthony Ogbevon has sought a compensation of N50 million and the release of his bus which according to him, was confiscated after being paraded for kidnapping and robbery even before investigation.
Mr Ogbevon was speaking on Friday before the Edo State Judicial Panel Of Inquiry for victims of SARS and related abuses, narrated how he was brutalised by the Nigeria Police following his refusal to help convey some alleged kidnappers with his bus to the state CID headquarters in Benin City, the Edo State capital.
Thereafter, he was accused of being a kidnapper and then detained.
He said his ware house located at Eribo Estate, Textile Mill road Benin was completely looted by the hoodlums during the #EndSARS protest.
“My creditors have been on my neck, asking for their money and I have no means of paying back because my goods were looted,”
“So, I decided to approach the panel for financial assistance,”.
“Government should kindly assist me at this moment because the losses are enormous,”
He said the institutions that gave him the money are on his neck, adding that he is at the panel for assistance to be able to liquidate the debts.”
Similarly, an Inspector of Police, Mrs. Afekhai Christiana, whose car was vandalized during the #EndSARS protest has demanded for a new one.