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The Ekiti State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Human Rights Violations has recommended over N1.5 million compensation to six complainants including four policemen who brought their cases before it.
The chairman, Justice Cornileus Akintayo, who read the recommendations, said, “The panel was able to establish the facts on each of the cases and thus made appropriate recommendations.”
A statement by the media adviser to the panel, Femi Bamisaye, titled, ‘Ekiti judicial panel recommends over N1.5m compensations to six complainants’, listed beneficiaries to include Inspector Omokhua Benjamin who is to get N400,000.00 compensation for his Golf 3 car and N50,000.00 for his personal properties destroyed at the Afao Police Station official quarters, Ikere Ekiti.
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The Ekiti State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Human Rights Violations has recommended over N1.5 million as compensation to six complainants who brought their cases before the panel.
The panel at its resumed sitting presided over by the Chairman, Justice Cornelius Akintayo in Ado-Ekiti recommended the payment of the total sum of N1,535,350 to six petitioners who complained about different forms of injustices and destruction to their properties during the last October EndSARS protests.
Justice Akintayo (rtd) who read out the recommendations said from the oral and documentary evidence of the complainants produced through exhibits tendered as well as visits to the locus, the panel was able to establish facts on each case and thus made appropriate recommendations
By Victor Ogunje
The Ekiti State Judicial Panel of Inquiry probing into issues of human rights abuses allegedly perpetrated by the police and other allied matters in the state, has recommended aggregate payment of N1.5 million as compensation to six petitioners, who brought their cases before the panel.
The panel at its resumed sitting Wednesday and presided over by the Chairman , Justice Cornileus Akintayo, took the decisions as part of its resolutions to ameliorate the sufferings of the victims.
In the case of Inspector Omokhua Benjamin, whose car was vandalised when some hoodlums attacked Ikere police station during the EndSARS protest, the panel recommended N400,000.00 as compensation for him.
Ekiti judIcial panel recommends N1.5M compensation to four policemen, others
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By Rotimi Ojomoyela
The Ekiti State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Human Rights Violations has recommended over N1.5 million Naira as compensation to six complainants, who brought their petitions before the panel.
The Chairman of the panel, Justice Cornileus Akintayo recommended the payment of the total sum of N1,535,350 to six petitioners that complained about different forms of injustices and destruction to their properties during the last October EndSARS protests.
A statement by the panel’s media adviser, Femi Bamisaye and made available to newsmen on Wednesday said, Justice Akintayo (rtd), who read out the recommendations stated that from the oral and documentary evidence of the complainants produced through exhibits tendered as well as visits to the scene of the incident and assessment of the damaged properties the panel was able to establish the facts on each case and thus made appropriate rec