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Tope Temokun, counsel for Ayodele, made this known on Thursday in a statement in Abuja.
The Chairman of the panel, retired Justice Alloy Nwankwo, made the confirmation while addressing newsmen in Abakaliki.
The panel was set up to investigate allegations of police brutality and the incident of October 20, 2020 where soldiers opened fire on protesters at the Lekki tollgate.
In a statement by the police spokesperson in the state, SP Yemisi Opalola, the police said it had information that some unscrupulous elements were planning to start an #EndSARS solidarity protest in the state.
A court during the week ruled that the accounts should be unfrozen following an amicable agreement reached over the matter with the Central Bank of Nigeria.
Garba filed the suit against Dorsey over his alleged sponsorship of the recent #EndSARS protests in parts of the country.
Tsoho made the assertion on Tuesday in Abuja at a special court session to mark the beginning of the 2020 to 2021 legal year of the court.
There was a further intensification of repression of human rights, including the right to peaceful assembly, in October when #EndSARS protesters participating in demonstrations to end police violence and corruption were reportedly harassed, intimidated, attacked and killed in several parts of Nigeria.
Mamora made the declaration when he visited the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Calabar, which was vandalised by hoodlums parading as #EndSARS protesters on October 24 to ascertain the level of damage done.
In the Nigerian universe, the EndSARS aftermath and CNN documented savagery of the Nigerian military has placed Hon. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in a fierce dilemma. Rather than refute the allegations of butchery of EndSARS protesters with official facts, the information supremo, Alhaji Mohammed, is busy gaslighting CNN and threatening sanction against transatlantic informational exchanges between Nigeria and the American news network. Such is the potent power of gaslighting that it demonises perceived enemy, opponent, rival or ambitious upstarts and make them question their own sanity.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that this was revealed by CCTV footage of the incident which was played by the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry for Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and Other Matters.
2. Before we delve into those issues, let’s look at the demand of the EndSARS protesters, whose campaign was aimed at ending police brutality and disbanding the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), and the response of the Federal Government:
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this in Abuja on Thursday while speaking on the roles the Nigerian disc jockey played on the alleged Lekki tollgate “massacre’’ of October 21.
The state Commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Uzamat Akinbile-Yusuf, disclosed this during the 2020 Association of Nigerian Journalists and Writers of Tourism seminar on Tuesday in Lagos.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Nigerian Army made the denial before the Lagos Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and Other Matters.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Nigerian Army made the remarks on Saturday, while narrating its version of events of the alleged shooting of unarmed #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki tollgate.
The Bank in a statement said it was concerned by the inconvenience that some of its customers are currently experiencing and would play its part to ensure that they have access to their accounts as quickly as possible.
This was contained in a statement in Ilorin by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Rafiu Ajakaye.
The six defendants were arrested while wearing RevolutionNow T-Shirt during a protest in front of the National Assembly.