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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.
By Henry Ojelu
The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution for Victims of SARS related Abuses and Lekki Tollgate incident has summoned the former spokesman of Lagos State Police Command, Dolapo Badmus, to identify an officer who allegedly brutalised a petitioner, Olajide Fowotade.
The panel, headed by Justice Doris Okuwobi, on Saturday, ordered that Badmus must appear before it to identify Sergeant Ayo, who allegedly brutalised the petitioner in a traffic dispute along Ketu-Ikosi Road while he was returning from his workplace in 2017.
The petitioner told the panel that he did not know the surname of the police officer who brutalised him, but could only identified him as “Ayo” from Ketu Police Station.