Laolu Akande, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, conveyed this in a tweet on Tuesday in Abuja.
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The panel was billed to resume sitting on Monday after the Christmas and New Year break.
Soyinka’s position on Arise TV on Saturday, came amid reports of the excesses of some members of the Amotekun Corps.
Ugwuoke told the panel on Monday in Enugu that her brother was arrested by men of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad on January 12, 2017 and had not been seen since then.
The panel gave the order on Tuesday during its sitting on extrajudicial killings by the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a unit of the Nigeria Police.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Silifat made the request to the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry for Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and Other Matters.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that while being led in evidence by her counsel, Hakeem Fadun, she told the panel that her left leg was hit by the stray bullet on June 6, 2018, at a market near her home in Ijesha, Lagos.
The alleged shooting which occurred during a traffic stop in Apapa, Lagos, on April 13, 2019, led to Ifeanyi’s death and left Ajomafuwe with injuries.
He wished he had the power to curtail the killings, if not out rightly stop it. Visibly vexed, he said: “The police will confiscate the victim’s property and share the property among themselves. I’ve been arrested several times and I have received threatening messages, but whom do I run to for safety? The job even becomes dangerous for me and my family members. We discovered that police frame victims for armed robbery because they want to cover up. Our government is not checking the excesses of the police. Nobody challenges the police’s impunity.
Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos, the cross-cultural Itsekiri and Swiss-born flutist said people needed to treat their neighbours the same way they want to be treated.
The students, numbering 20, stormed the Lagos State Court of Arbitration, Lekki, venue of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Special Anti-Robbery Squad Abuses.
Edozieuno made the call in her petition to the panel sitting in Awka, the state capital, on Thursday, alleging that the deceased died in police custody.
Adamu said this while addressing police officers and newsmen at the Lagos State Command Headquarters, Ikeja, during a courtesy visit to burnt police formations and injured police officers in Lagos.
Narrating her ordeal before the Lagos State Judicial Panel on #EndSARS protest, Ndubisi said that she was detained and tortured along with her husband, Okwuchukwu, for 22 days by SARS in 2017.
Travelling may mean different things to different people. But to men of the Special Anti- Robbery Squad, an arm of the Nigeria Police Force, to “travel” means to kill a suspect in detention. Hundreds of robbery suspects, if not thousands, who had been arrested and taken to SARS, have been killed extrajudicially.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Abunike, a father of five, made some allegations during the inaugural sitting of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Tuesday in Lagos.
In a video she posted on her Instagram page, DJ Switch asked the authorities not to insult the intelligence of Nigerians when giving their own account of what happened on that day
This was contained in a statement signed by his Director-General on Media, Abdu Labaran, and made available to newsmen on Tuesday in Katsina.
A statement by the Panel’s Secretary, Babajide Boye, said the sittings will hold in the open and as such members of the public and the press are invited to be part of every sitting.
This is contained in a statement issued in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday by Olayinka Oyebode, the Chief Press Secretary to the governor.