#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.
#EndSARS: We treated 15 victims of Lekki Shooting – Surgeon
Mr Ayobami said the hospital recorded no deaths as all the 15 patients brought in were subsequently discharged. 2 min read
The medical director of Grandville Trauma Centre, Aranmolate Ayobami, has told the Lagos Judicial Panel that the hospital treated 15 patients who suffered gunshot injuries during the October 20, 2020, Lekki shooting incident.
Mr Ayobami, who is also a surgeon at the hospital, said a total number of 15 patients presented at the facility, were all transferred from other hospitals in Lagos.
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Mr Ayobami appeared before the panel on Saturday based on a summons issued to Grandville Trauma Centre to give account of their encounter with protesters from the Lekki incident.
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A petitioner, Taiwo Oyewunmi, on Friday narrated to the Lagos Judicial Panel on police brutality how he was handcuffed with his 14-year-old son, Ayomide, by some unnamed police officers in Ajah.
The petitioner demanded financial compensation of N25 million.
Mr Oyewunmi, who represented his son, alleged that on September 10, 2020, some uninformed men stormed his apartment in the Ajah area of Lagos, and arrested him and his two sons including the 14-year-old.
“I was at home on the 10th of September 2020, I was about to use the bathroom, my first child, Olamide Oyewunmi, a graduate, had gone to work early in the morning as usual. While in the bathroom, I heard a noise, I was naked already in the bathroom. I didn’t know the direction that the noise was coming from. I took my boxers,” he said.
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A surgeon at the National Orthopedic Hospital, Igbobi, Chungjoe Christopher, has told the Lagos Judicial Panel of Inquiry that a petitioner before it stands the risk of leg cancer and amputation after her experience in the hands of the Nigerian Police.
Mr Christopher, who is a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon, explained this to the panel on Tuesday while testifying in the case of Gloria Ezeh, a victim of police brutality.
Mrs Ezeh, a middle-aged woman, had earlier approached the panel and narrated how a police officer ran over her leg with a van because she could not pay N100,000 bribe demanded by the police.