Lagos State Government says its Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution for Victims of SARS-related Abuses and Lekki Toll Gate Incident would begin sitting on Tuesday.
It also said all suspected hoodlums arrested in connection with the mayhem unleashed on the state after the Lekki shootings would be prosecuted.
The state governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu had inaugurated the judicial panel under the chairmanship of Justice Doris Okuwobi (a retired judge) to investigate cases of brutality and human rights violations allegedly committed by SARS operatives.
Other members of the panel are Mr. Ebun Adegboruwa (SAN) Taiwo Lakanu, Ms. Patience Udoh, Mr. Segun Awosanya and Mrs. Olutoyin Odusanya.
Secretary of the judicial panel, Mr. Boye said members of the public “are hereby invited to submit memoranda at the public sitting of the judicial panel set up to look into the grievances of victims of SARS abuses and the incident at the Lekki Toll Gate.”
Starting from Tuesday, the statement disclosed that the judicial panel “will sit three times in a week for a period of six months. The panel will sit at the Lagos Court or Arbitration, Lekki-Epe expressway, Lekki Phase I.”
