Eight months after its inauguration by Governor Seyi Makinde, the Oyo state judicial panel of enquiry, on Tuesday, held its final public panel sitting on petitions of police brutality and related extrajudicial killings.
At the final sitting held at House of Chiefs, State Secretariat, Ibadan, Chairman of the panel, Justice Badejoko Adeniji (rtd) disclosed that the panel attended to a total of 163 petitions.
Among others, Adeniji stated that the panel received and investigated petitions on police-related abuses, evaluated evidence presented by petitioners, looked at their surrounding circumstances and validity of complaints.
While not giving a specific date, Adeniji said its recommendations of compensation, remedial measures and restitution for victims and petitioners will be handed over to the state government, in due course.
It will be recalled that Makinde had on November 10, 2020, inaugurated the Oyo Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality in the state in compliance with the directive of the federal government that the state should set up panels of inquiry, following the #EndSARS protests.
At the final sitting, a petitioner, Mrs Oseni Fatiat in a case against Inspector Clement Olarenwaju and the Inspector General of Police demanded N10million as compensation for being brutalized by men of the Nigeria Police.
Oseni recounted that police on June 28, 2018, stormed her residence alleging that a vehicle parked in front of her house was stolen.
Oseni reported that she was whisked away and kept in police custody both at Dugbe, Ibadan and Ikeja, Lagos, for 15 days where she was hit by the butt of the gun on her knee and chest to confess to an allegation of the robbery she knew nothing about.
With the police not present at the panel sitting to put up its defence, the Adeniji led panel said it will forward its recommendation for remedial measures to the state government for consideration.
Also considered at Tuesday’s final sitting was the case between Pastor Ajayi Opeyemi and The Nigeria Police, Akanran Police station in respect of building alleged to have been taken by the police.
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