EndSARS: 2 Years After, States Fail To Implement Judicial Panels’ Recommendations
Inquiry set up by Governor Udom Emmanuel and chaired by retired Justice Ifiok Ukana, had submitted its report.
He, however, said Governor Udom Emmanuel can stand out and win the hearts of the Akwa Ibom people and Nigerians by lessening the burdens of the victims either by monetary compensation or otherwise. The group’s national coordinator, Michael Lenin, and national secretary, Francis Nwapa, condemned the Police for dispersing and arresting activists who rallied at Lekki Tollgate in honour of the victims of the Lekki Toll Gate shooting.
Going forward, the YRC joined the movement to demand justice, including adequate compensation for all victims of the shootings at Lekki Toll Gate and elsewhere in the country, victims of police brutality and state repression. He specifically mentioned that most of the divisional police stations burnt and those killed by the protesters, including policemen, were yet to be compensated by the state government.
Osun State government on 12th of May, 2022 presented cheques totalling N53.2 million as compensation to victims of police brutality in the state. In Ondo State, the panel, which submitted its report on April 28, 2021, recommended the payment of N755,730,897.83 to various petitioners who suffered damage as a result of a breach of their fundamental rights, and public apology to victims in national dailies.Efforts to get the comment of the government were abortive at the time of this report.
Secretary to the state government, SSG, Professor Solo Chukwulobelu who received the panel reports on behalf of the government, promised that the government would consider the report and take appropriate action. Azor insisted that setting up the Truth, Justice and Peace Commission , which is headed by Prof. Chidi Odinkalu and Ambassador Bianca Odimegwu Ojukwu as chairman and secretary respectively was unnecessary.
Speaking on the inability of the Plateau State government to implement recommendation of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality and Other Related Extra Judicial Killings in Plateau state, the zonal director, North Central, CLO, Comrade Steve Aluko, said till today, Plateau State had not implemented a single recommendation of the panel.
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