Editor s Note
The protest is for our lives, its for our future. We want SARS to
end but SARS is just the beginning. They should just wait for us.
Were not quiet anymore. [This response appears] typical of the
critical mass of protesters who are around 18-22 years old, are
particularly fearless, and are protesting for the first time. -
Ayodeji Rotinwa, Deputy Editor of African Arguments
Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, returning to Nigeria just
before the EndSars protests began, wrote this earlier this week: I arrived home from external commitments just over a week ago to
Judicial Panel awards N7.5m to Alaba trader thrown off 2-storey building by police officers in 2018 Judicial Panel awards N7.5m to Alaba trader thrown off 2-storey building by police officers in 2018
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The Lagos State Judicial Panel probing police brutality has awarded N7.5million to a trader, Ndukwe Ekekwe, whose spine was broken after being thrown off a two-storey building at Alaba International Market in Ojo Local Government Area (LGA) by police officers in 2018.
But an angry Ekekwe, 34, described the amount as too inadequate to compensate for his ordeal.
In his petition, Ndukwe told the panel that he was unlawfully arrested at the market on February 16, taken to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) head office at Ikeja, stripped naked and brutalised in a torture chamber.
Insurers in Nigeria have settled claims of 4 billion Nigerian naira ($10 million) to date out of NGN4.5 billion claims related to losses arising from the protests against the brutalities committed by Nigeria’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad in October 2020.
#EndSARS: Lagos attempts to block family of killed journalist from testifying
Even though the family is yet to receive the corpse of the deceased seven months after being murdered, the state government wants the judicial panel to dismiss the case of the journalist.
The family of a 20-year-old journalist, Pelumi Onifade, killed by
police officers attached to the Lagos State Task Force are about to be shut out from the Lagos Judicial Panel of Inquiry, a document has shown.
The family of the deceased, who approached the judicial panel on Saturday, was prevented from airing their case against the police following a preliminary objection raised against the case by the counsel to the Lagos state government.