Channels Television Updated December 22, 2020 (FILE) Members of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution at a sitting on November 28, 2020.
The Lagos State Judicial Panel on Restitution for Victims of SARS and other related matters on Tuesday continued its sitting with 16 cases listed for hearing. One of the highlights of today’s sitting is the petition of late Kolade Johnson, who was allegedly killed by an officer of the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in 2019 in the Mangoro area of Lagos. Present to testify on Kola’s behalf were two representatives, his neighbor and sister. On the prompting of his lawyer, Wale Ademoyejo, the first witness, Nana Samuel, recounted how the victim and others went to an eatery in March 2019, to watch a football match.