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EndSARS panel report: Adegboruwa raises alarm over threat to life

Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN) has raised an alarm over threats he allegedly has been receiving following the Lagos panel report on the Lekki Tollgate shooting.

Adegboruwa was one of the members of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and other matters, which submitted its report to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu last week.

The report, which indicted the Nigerian Police and Army, has generated ripples both in Nigeria and abroad.

In a statement on Monday, Adegboruwa said that “there have been lots of threats and attacks” on him from people he suspected to be government’s agents.

The SAN, in an earlier statement on Thursday, had clarified that he acted on the mandate of the Lagos State Governor Sanwo-Olu, to fulfill his promise by making the findings available to the public.

He also added that one of the prominent EndSARS protesters, Miss Kamsiyochukwu Ibe, who testified before the panel, was attacked on Sunday night.

He, therefore, called on the general public and the Nigerian Bar Association to be on a watch out and hold the government responsible if anything happens to him.

Part of the statement reads “I have not committed any crime beyond joining other eminent Nigerians with unblemished integrity, to accept the nomination of government on behalf of my constituency, the Nigerian Bar Association, and the civil society and indeed the masses of our people, for a national assignment.

“Two prominent lawyers of the government have openly incited opinions against me on national television, with mindless accusations.

“I have however refused to be intimidated or bend to the tactics of the government to be silenced.

“I urge the good people of Nigeria, my professional colleagues in the Nigerian Bar Association, my comrades in the civil rights movement and the people of Nigeria, to hold the government responsible should anything happen to me.

“Just last night, one of the prominent EndSARS protesters, Miss Kamsiyochukwu Ibe who testified before the Panel, was attacked and dealt serious machete blows, in what was clearly an attempted murder, as reported by her counsel, with very disturbing photos.

“I heeded the clarion call by the government to serve with the honest belief that the Panel was meant to say the truth and nothing but the truth, which is what we have done. It is left for the government and Nigerians to do the needful with the report of the Panel”.

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