The Edo State judicial panel of inquiry on Tuesday presented the EndSARS protest report to governor Godwin Obaseki, recommending that two petitioners hit by stray police bullets in the #ENDSARS protest in Benin City be offered employment.
Ohimai Asekhame and Miracle Aihenlenokhoria were hit by police stray bullets during the #ENDSARS protests, while later resulted in their limbs being amputated.
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Chairman of the panel, Justice Ada Ehigiamusoe, said, “We invite and appeal most passionately to your excellency to consider their plight in terms of possible employment.”
The chairman, who didn’t mention the monetary compensation to the victims, said that 10 of the 135 petitions sought the enforcement of judgments of various high courts against the police for acts of brutality and extrajudicial killings.
“We recommended the payment of compensations to the victims and/or their families for the aforementioned acts of the police. We also recommended the enforcement of all the judgments in debts as granted by the courts which have not been complied with by the police till date”.
She said a total number of 170 petitions were filed but 25 were struck out for lack of diligence while 10 were dismissed for lacking in merit.
Responding, Governor Godwin Obaseki commended the panel for the report, “All of us, particularly political leaders must begin to understand that if we do not listen to the yearnings of our people more, if we continue to carry on as if we are in power for ourselves, we pray that the situation of last year doesn’t occur. And if it does, the EndSARS we experience will be a joke.”
