Over 50 police officers have been indicted by the Lagos State Judicial Panel on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and Other Matters, FIJ can report.
The panel accused the officers of committing crimes against humanity and violating the rights of young persons protesting against police brutality.
An insider who did not want to be named for the fear of being victimised said the leaked 309-page report does not contain the complete resolution of the panel, noting that the final version of the report will soon be made public.
“The recommendations and findings of that document are the same as the one submitted to the state, but there are some things in that final one that were not leaked,” the source said.
“Many people have been saying we did not name policemen responsible for crimes, but we named over 50 policemen, and you will see it in the final document.”
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The source also branded those questioning the outcome of the panel’s investigation on the Lekki massacre as “unserious people”.
Disclaiming those saying names mentioned in the report as victims of the Lekki massacre had no online presence, the source said: “At a time when we want to prove a point, we start to change the narrative. As it stands today, we have over 200 million Nigerians, are there up to 100 million people online?”
On November 15, the panel submitted a 309-page report to Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Governor of Lagos State, admitting that soldiers shot live ammunition at armless protesters with the intention to kill and maim them.
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