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EndSARS: Edo govt to offset hospital bills of 2 deaf victims, says panel chairperson
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Governor Godwin Obaseki
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo has promised to offset the hospital bills of two deaf victims allegedly shot by operatives of the Police and the Army, during the EndSARS protests in Benin.
This was disclosed on Monday, by Justice Ada Ehigiamisoe, the Chairperson of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry for victims of SARS and related abuses, sitting in Benin.
She said that the state government had offered to pay the medical bills of the victims, which is running into thousands of Naira, following a petition made by the Edo State Association of the Deaf, through the panel, to the State government.
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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