The Lagos panel of Enquiry and Restitution for victims of the disbanded Police Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) had its first sitting today.
Two representatives of the #EndSARS protests, Rinu Oduala and Temitope Majekodunmi were also sworn into the Lagos Panel.
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The duo emerged youth representatives following online voting by youths.
Oduala is a brand strategist and an advocate for social justice who has been at the forefront of the agitation while Majekodunmi is an administrator and a transformational leader who has also been advocating for an end to police brutality in the country.
The youths representatives, alongside the South-West Zonal Coordinator of the National Human Rights Commission, Mr Lucas Koyejo on Tuesday took their oath of office as they joined the Justice Doris Okuwobi (Rtd) and Mr Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN) on the panel.
Other members of the panel are Mr Taiwo Lakanu, a retired Deputy Inspector General of Police; Ms Patience Udoh, representing the Civil Society; Mr Segun Awosanya, Human Rights Activist; Mrs Olutoyin Odusanya, Director, Lagos Citizens Mediation Centre.
The panel of inquiry and restitution which was set up to investigate cases of brutality and human rights violations committed by operatives of the dissolved SARS in Lagos State is to sit from 10 am to 4 pm on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays for six months at the Lagos Court of Arbitration, Remi Oluwode street, Lekki Phase 1.
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu commended the youths in Lagos for coming together to select Rinu Oduala and Majekodunmi Temitope to join the Lagos Judicial Panel On SARS.
According to him, the scope of the panel has been expanded to cover the Lekki toll incident while he called on victims to submit their memoranda through the panel’s email: [email protected]..
