Youth representatives at the Lagos Judicial Panel, Rinuola
Oduola (Rinu) has given reasons they rejected the approval for reopening of
Lekki Toll Gate.
The panel, probing the alleged
killing of End SARS protesters at the Toll Gate, on Saturday, approved the
reopening of the Toll plaza and returned control to its owners, the Lekki Concession
Company (LCC).
However, some members of the panel, a Senior Advocate of
Nigeria, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, alongside other three members of the panel,
Patience Udoh (representing civil society), Rinuola Oduola and Temitope
Majekodunmi (representing the youths) rejected the repossession and the
reopening of the Lekki toll plaza.
Rinu on her Twitter page, said the approval cannot stand as
a result of LCC’s inability to provide access to their CCTV servers for the
forensic expert employed by the panel to authenticate the footage.
She noted that justice must be served and the decision
cannot stand until investigation into the Lekki Toll Gate incident is
concluded.
“Let it be known that today, I and @TemiOanu, dissented to
the reopening of the Lekki Toll Gate on the Lagos Panel.
“This, as a result of LCC inability to provide access to
their CCTV servers for the forensic expert employed by the panel to
authenticate the footage they submitted
“We are of the view that the investigations into the Lekki
Toll Gate incidence have barely begun, and so the Lekki Toll Gate should remain
shut until full investigations are concluded by the Panel,” she said.
Rinu stressed that the ruling cannot hold because “a quorum
was not formed with the youth representatives absent.”
In a Twitter thread, she wrote: “The ruling that Lekki Toll
Gate should be reopened cannot hold, as a quorum wasn’t formed today with the
youth representatives absent.
“It is also pertinent to note that 5 of 9 can’t form a
proper quorum. You should also be noted that the ruling did not include our
dissenting opinions as members of the panel.
“This stand is also taken by Ebun Adegboruwa SAN and Ms.
Patience Udoh, members of the Civil society group.”
“Five other members of the panel held the view that the Toll
Gate should be allowed to reopen. LCC has questions to answer. We remain
committed to getting justice,” her tweet added.
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