#EndSARS: Panel awards N7.5m to man remanded six years without trial
The petitioner was illegally arrested the first day he arrived in Lagos and spent six years in prison.
Lagos Judicial Panel on Friday for the ordeal he went through.
Chidiebere Nwadi was arrested on his first day in Lagos in 1999 and was detained. He was thereafter remanded in prison where he spent six years without any offence, charge or trial against him.
He was 18 years at the time of arrest and was in prison up till 2004, six years after. Mr Nwadi, now 40, told PREMIUM TIMES he wasted his prime age in the prison.
Shola Soyele
Updated February 23, 2021
The Lagos State Judicial Panel on Restitution for victims of SARS and other related matters has summoned the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, and the Commissioner of police in charge of Legal Dept, Abuja, the AIG Co-Operative Police College, Ikeja and the Surveyor-General of Lagos State.
Justice Doris Okuwobi summoned the four persons on Tuesday in relation to a petition involving a bed-ridden 76-year-old petitioner, Prince Adewale Adewuyi who appeared before the panel.
The petitioner alleged police brutality, aggravated assault after his 26 acres of land in Age-Mowo village Badagry was forcefully taken over by the police in December 2013. The land is said to be worth over ₦800m.