LAGOS — Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos state, has said the leak of the unauthorised version of the report reopened a deep wound and generated much tension. The governor said this during a press conference on Tuesday. This is the first time the governor is commenting on the report of the Lagos judicial panel on police brutality. The report of the panel was leaked shortly after it was submitted to the Lagos state government on...

LAGOS — Moyosore Onigbanjo, attorney-general and commissioner for justice in Lagos has said the report presented by the judicial panel is filled with many contradictions. According to him, these contradictions make the report on police brutality findings unreliable. On November 15, the panel had submitted two reports. One on cases of police brutality and another on the Lekki shooting incident. The panel had listed nine fatalities from the shooting at the Lekki tollgate on October...

ABUJA  — Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture has described the report by the Lagos judicial panel as a reappraisal of the unverified fake news According to him, the report submitted by the panel set up to probe police brutality and the shooting at the Lekki tollgate is riddled with discrepancies. The report which said the incident at Lekki Toll Gate was a “killing of unarmed protesters by soldiers on October 20, 2020 and...

YOLA — The Judicial Panel of Inquiry into alleged brutality of the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS in Adamawa State Monday submitted its report to government in three volumes consisting of recommendations, submissions and exhibits. The committee was inaugurated in October pursuant to the directives of the National Economic Council following the nationwide protests last year against the disbanded security squad. Presenting the report, Chairman of the 13-member Judicial Panel of Enquiry, Retired Justice Adamu...

ABUJA  — Following the recent release of the Lagos State EndSARS Judicial Panel Reports, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has told the visiting United States Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, that his government will allow the system to exhaust itself, and will, therefore, wait for pronouncements from state governments which set up panels to probe police brutality in the country. Buhari said this on Thursday at State House, Abuja, while receiving in audience...