Two petitioners have been awarded N10 million each as
compensation by the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Restitution and Inquiry set
up to investigate cases of police brutality especially involving officers of
the now-defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad.
The two petitioners, Kudirat Obayomi and Hannah Olugbodi
were awarded the compensation on Friday.
Olugbodi, a 35-year-old hairdresser, had on November 2020,
narrated how she ended up on a crutch after her left leg was shattered by a
stray bullet fired by some men of the disbanded police Special Anti-Robbery
Squad who were attempting to arrest a young man with tattoos in June 2018 at
the Ijeshatedo area of Lagos.
She said the SARS operatives were at one Ogun City Hotel, to
demand money to fuel their vehicle when they saw the young man with tattoos
among a group of persons watching a football match at the hotel.
According to the petitioner, the owner of the hotel, one
Abu, who usually gave the SARS operatives money, was not around to attend to
them.
She said the SARS operatives labelled the young man with
tattoos a Yahoo Yahoo boy (cyber fraudster).
She said an attempt by the SARS operatives to arrest and
take the boy with tattoos away was resisted by the other boys, making the SARS
operatives resort to firing gunshots.
Olugbodi said she was at Ijesha market trying to buy pepper
to prepare food for her children to take to school the following day when she
was hit by a stray bullet.
She said the market women rushed towards her and asked her
for her address and the name of her husband, which she managed to give before
passing out.
She said she was eventually taken to the Lagos University
Teaching Hospital where they said there was no bed space and she was given four
bags of intravenous fluid right in the bus.
Details later…
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If this decision will come so soon even if not for all petitions, why the hast to start the renovation of toll gate when it was sure to raise bad blood? Or is it that since there has been an unexpected reaction,( attempted protest and the arrest the supposed protesters) this is a strategy to calm strained nerves? Just questions ooo.
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