Kamsichukwu Ibeh, an #EndSARS protester who testified before
the Lagos judicial panel on police brutality, has been stabbed by suspected
hoodlums.
She was said to have been attacked on Sunday evening in the
Sangotedo area of Lagos while she was heading home from work.
Ibeh testified before the Lagos panel on November 21, 2020
regarding the Lekki tollgate shooting.
In a video obtained by our correspondent, Ibeh, who had machete cuts on
her hands and parts of her body, was seen crying as she narrated how she was
attacked.
“Last night, I was
attacked on my way back from TNS by the three guys who I thought were
passersby,” she said.
Ibeh said while she was at the bus stop, the men identified
her as the “girl from the panel”.
“He said if they kill me, they will see how I will continue
to agitate for justice. They started cutting me like I am a thief,” she said.
“I survived by the
grace of God. I thought I would die at that bus stop.”
Adesina Ogunlana, a lawyer and human rights activist who
represented Ibeh at the judicial panel, said her attackers came “with identity
and with purpose”. The lawyer said Ibeh was attacked because of her testimony.
Ogunlana, the former chairman of the Nigerian Bar
Association (NBA), Ikeja branch, said the incident is an attempt to silence
protesters.
“Yesterday night, enemies of the #EndSARS movement and
protest launched a murderous attack on one of the leaders of the movement,
Kamsichukwu Ibeh,” she said.
“The attackers were
not criminals who came to rob her of personal effects, neither were they
rapists. The criminals came with identity and with purpose.
“As they were macheting and cutting her the three assailants
said, ‘we know you. Since you #EndSARS people have been warned to stop and you
didn’t, when you die, go and continue in heaven’.
“They inflicted serious matchet cuts on her and left her for
dead. That Kamsi is still alive is only by the grace of God.”
Earlier on Monday, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa had alleged that
there is a threat to his life over the report of the Lagos judicial panel.
Adegboruwa, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), was a member
of the panel.
Last Monday, the panel submitted two documents — a
consolidated report on cases of police brutality and another on the Lekki
shooting incident — to Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of the state.
In the 309-page report which was leaked to the public, the
panel said the “killing of unarmed protesters by soldiers on October 20, 2020
could be described in the context of a massacre”.
The report has elicited mixed reactions — with some persons
commending the panel while others pointed out errors in the document.
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