The Cold War between the Lekki Massacre Panelist
There have been an on going squabble amongst the Panelists set up to look into the Endsars Lekki Masacre which took place on 20th of October, 2020 and previous police brutality and police abuse of power set up by the Lagos state government in October, 2020. Their assignment is simple, to look into the matters of police brutality which led to the infamous endsars protest resulting to the 20th of October 2020 incident, make your funding and submit reports of your findings and recommendations.
The different stands taken by counsels to different sides of the divide have been made public. While the counsel to the Lagos state government Mr. Aboidun Jelili Owonikoko SAN openly criticized the the other panelists on air during an Arise News Interview on Thursday, November 18, 2021. He claimed that there are about forty notable discrepancies in the report submitted by the panel one of which is that a witness who testified during the panel session and is clearly still alive is reported to be dead in the panel’s report and money awarded to his family. The learned Silk also criticized that some of the panelists didn’t attend the panel sessions enough in order to make an informed decision. He also went ahead to state that some of the panelists was fingered for collecting bribes at some point, that which nearly ground the panel session to halt if not for the timely intervention of the president of the Nigerian Bar Association and other NBA officials who called the situation to order.
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The panel submitted their report which is said to be a 309 pages of report on Monday, 15th of November, 2021 to the Lagos state government out of which the Lagos state government set up another panel to look into the 309 pages report and come up with a white paper in two weeks.
Although, the contents of the report is yet to be made officially public but the leaked version of it have been making round the social media which one of the panelists stated that the contents of the leaked version is not far from the contents of the official version of the report submitted to the Lagos state government except for some typographical errors.