#EndSARS: Petitioners want Sanwo-Olu, Fashola, Tinubu to appear before Panel

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Petitioners before the panel probing the Lekki shootings have requested the appearance of Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola and Chief Executive Officer of Loatsad Promomedia Ltd, Mr. Seyi Tinubu; to appear before the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Enquiry and Restitution for Victims of SARS related abuses and other matters.

Fashola, works&housing minister

That is if the panel accedes to the request of Adesina Ogunlana, the lawyer representing the #EndSARS protesters, who asked it to summon them via an application on December 9 to panel chairman, Judge Emeritus Doris Okuwobi.

APC Chaieftain, Chief Bola Tinubu briefing State House Correspondents after his meeting with President
Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Monday (30/10/17)
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The Nation, which claimed to have sighted the application, reports that the proposed invitees could provide information concerning the Lekki shootings of October 20 or its aftermath.

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

Others being sought to be invited to the panel to testify, according to the report, include, 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 invite officials of seven private and government-owned hospitals.

They are: 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.

The rest are: 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,” Ogunlana said in the application.

Source Whirlwindnews.com

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