An ex-Chief Inspector of Schools and Director of Education in Lagos State, Prince M. A Akaba, has petitioned the “Lagos State Judicial Panel on Restitution for Victims of SARS-related Abuses and other Matters” seeking N2 billion compensation for alleged police brutality.
Prince Akaba also prayed the panel to retrieve his wife, Titilayo, and daughter, Nike, from one Mr Oluwole Fabinu, his former colleague.
He alleged that his former co-lecturer at the Nigerian Teachers Institute (NTI) at Badagry, Mr Fabinu, snatched his wife from him and also took his daughter, Nike, turned him blind and started threatening his life.
He told the panel that, “I reported him to the police at Lagos State University (LASU) and the Commissioner of Police sent me to CID, Abeokuta, Eleweran, and from there they sent me to Panti, Yaba, Lagos, on 5th October, 2019, where I met one police man called Charles who brutalised me; asking who I was to come and report, and that I was not a rich man and that I should pay N100,000.
“I had no money. The only money on me was N52,000 which was for my children’s school fees. He started pushing me with his gun and I fell into the gutter and hit my head and chest on the pillar of the gutter, then he asked me if I was blind before they collected my wife from me.”
He said he became unconscious due to the pressure on his head, and that SARS operatives collected the money from him and ran away with it.
Two weeks after the incident, he said he went to the Panti Police Station to make a written complaint but they did not allow him access.
He further told the panel that, “I have visited many hospitals in Nigeria and Benin Republic because blood entered my brain and skull which I need billions of naira to go to India to fix.”
The case was adjourned to August 20.
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