• Restates call for independent panel of inquiry
A Non-Governmental Organisation, the Youth Rights Campaign (YRC), has condemned the decision of the Lagos State Panel of Inquiry on EndSARS protests to return possession of the Lekki tollgate to Lekki Concession Company (LCC).
It said the decision undermined the demand for justice by Nigerians, as the issues surrounding the tragic events of October 20, 2020 had not been resolved, pointing out that the decision was an attempt to deny the youths justice.
The group, in a statement, yesterday, signed by its National Co-ordinator, Adaramoye Michael and Secretary, Francis Nwapa, said that the Lagos State panel, on the basis of lacking independence and democracy, was not capable of ensuring justice and bringing to book all those culpable in the Lekki shooting and killing of protesters in the country before and on October 20, 2020.
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The Lagos State Panel of Inquiry probing police brutality and cases of human rights abuses sitting in Lagos has summoned the former Lagos and Zone 2 Police PRO, Dolapo Badmus to appear as a witness.
This followed a petition that was filed by a building contractor, Olaide Fowotade who alleged that he was brutalized by a policeman named Ayo Aduku attached to Ketu Police station in 2017.
The petitioner further alleged that Officer Aduku brutalized him and removed two of his teeth, adding that he wrote a petition to the Zone 2 headquarters which was received by the office of the then AIG, Mr. Aderanti who is now retired.
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A man with an amputated left leg on Friday appeared as a petitioner before the Lagos State Panel of Judicial Inquiry probing the alleged shooting of #EndSARS protesters by soldiers at the Lekki tollgate on the night of October 20.
The amputee’s lawyer, O.E. Bamgbola, gave his client’s name as Lucky Philemon.
Bamgbola told the panel that his client was before the retired Justice Doris Okuwobi-led panel in relation to the Lekki shootings.
He said, “The petition relates to a peaceful protester who suffered gunshot injuries as a result of the shootings on the 20th of October in the Lekki axis, in consequence of which he became an amputee; his left leg was amputated.
By Onozure Dania, Lagos
A 27-year-old carpenter and an #ENDSARS protester, Lucky Philemon, who was shot at on October 20, at the Lekki Tollgate, appeared before the Lagos State Panel of Judicial Inquiry, on Saturday, with his left leg amputated.
The amputee’s lawyer, O. E. Bamgbola, told the panel that the petitioner, a peaceful protester, was before the panel in relation to the Lekki shootings.
He said: “The petition relates to a peaceful protester who suffered gunshot injuries as a result of the shootings of October 20 in the Lekki axis, in consequence of which he became an amputee; his left leg was amputated.
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American media house, Cable News Network, CNN, has shunned a summons issued to it to appear before the Lagos State Panel of Judicial Inquiry probing the alleged killing of #EndSARS protesters by soldiers at the Lekki tollgate, Lagos on the night of October 20.
The foreign media house contended that it does not fall under the territorial jurisdiction of the retired Justice Doris Okuwobi-led panel to warrant being summoned to appear before the panel.
The CNN had, in a two-part report backed with pictures and video clips, implicated the Nigerian Army in the alleged killing of peaceful protesters at the Lekki tollgate.