Summon Sanwo-Olu, Fashola, others, #EndSARS protesters urge panel

#EndSARS protesters’ lawyer, Mr Adesina Ogunlana, has requested the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Enquiry and Restitution for Victims of SARS related abuses and other matters to summon Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu and 12 others.

He stated this in an application to panel Chairman, Judge Emeritus Doris Okuwobi.

He said they could provide information concerning the Lekki shootings of October 20 or its aftermath.

Apart from the governor, other people named in the application are Minister of of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, SAN; Chief Executive Officer of Loatsad Promomedia Ltd, Mr Seyi Tinubu; Managing Director, Oriental Hotel; Divisional Police Officer, Maroko Police Station and Lekki Concession Company Officials in charge of information Technology Intelligence and Security.

Ogunlana also requested that the panel should invite officials of seven private and government-owned hospitals.

They are the Chief Medical Director, Lagos Island General Hospital; Chief Medical Director, Reddington Hospital, Lekki and Victoria Island; Chief Medical Director, Grandville Hospital, Ajah; General Hospital, Ikeja; Chief Pathologist, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja.

They also include the Provost, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH); The Chief Medical Director, Orthopedic Hospital, Igbobi, Lagos.

They “have played certain roles to qualify as being part of those who can give relevant and useful information to the Panel for use to it purpose as regards the ‘lekki shooting’.

“We intend to interview such before the Panel by the kind permission of the Panel,” he stated.

The Nigerian Army has denied #EndSARS protesters allegations that it shot at and killed several peaceful protesters at the Lekki tollgate.