By our reporter/ The Lagos judicial panel on police brutality on Monday submitted its report to governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu at the government house, Ikeja, Lagos.
The panel submitted two sets of reports — a consolidated report on police brutality cases and the Lekki incident investigation.
The Lagos government inaugurated the judicial panel to investigate petitions on police brutality in the state on October 19, 2020 following the #EndSARS protest that rocked the country.
Governor Sanwo-Olu, shortly after receiving the report, said it is the beginning of the “difficult process of proper reconciliation and restitution”.
While commending the members of the panel for the work done, he noted that posterity will be kind to them.
According to him, the report will be submitted to the national economic council (NEC), adding that “proper response” will be accorded to the recommendations.
Sanwo-Olu also constituted a four-member committee headed by Moyosore Onigbanjo, the state’s attorney-general, to come up with a white paper on the panel’s recommendations within the next two weeks.
“I’m believing and trusting that this process will help us start the very difficult process of proper reconciliation, restitution, bringing together of anyone that must have been one form or the other being affected,” he said.
“By either the police or any of our citizens that must have been wronged by one form or the other, the process of healing, I imagine, with the submission of this panel report, will start that process.”
The sitting was initially meant to last for six months but lasted for one year.
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