{"id":2404,"date":"2021-12-03T10:47:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T10:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/?p=2404"},"modified":"2021-12-03T11:49:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T11:49:36","slug":"lagos-white-paper-whitewashes-endsars-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/lagos-white-paper-whitewashes-endsars-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos White Paper Whitewashes #ENDSARS Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The report of the #EndSARS panel on Police brutality was damning enough. The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Enquiry received reports of massive abuse of citizens\u2019 rights by the Police and security forces, and described killings at the Lekki Tollgate on 20<sup>th<\/sup> October 2020, as a massacre. The panel\u2019s report which was leaked, also accused the Army and the Police of killing peaceful protesters and taking action to clean up evidence. Receiving the report of the panel on 15<sup>th<\/sup> November 2021, the Lagos State government promised to issue a White Paper within two weeks. Keeping to its words, it did. A White Paper was issued on the report of the panel. The State government\u2019s White Paper appear however, to differ radically from the contents of the report. The serious, egregious violation of rights identified in the report was whitewashed by the government\u2019s White Paper. Indeed, it appears that the government White Paper came out smelling like sweet rose. To drive the knife deeper into the wound, the Lagos State government announced invitation to #EndSARS protest leaders to come for a \u201cPeace Walk.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2026Activists Under Threat<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just after the #EndSARS panel\nreport was leaked, one of the protesters was attacked, while one of the panel\nmembers reported threat to his life. According to Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN), he\nreceived threats to his person, which made him worry about his safety. In a\npublic statement, Adegboruwa stated that there have been lots of threats and\nattacks by those suspected to be&nbsp; agents\nof the government, against him, especially in the media. He called on citizens\nto hold government responsible should anything happen to him. In an earlier\ndevelopment, one of the prominent #EndSARS protesters who testified before the\npanel, Miss Kamsiyochukwu Ibeh was attacked and dealt serious machete blows by\nthose her lawyers described as government agents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nigerians and lots of Nigeria\u2019s\nwatchers have raised serious questions about the antics and tactics of Police\nand security forces in their management of public protests, and treatment of\ngovernment critics. In widely reported cases, the high-handedness of security\nforces and the police have been manifestly brutal. In the reported case of the\nattempted arrest of Oduduwa Republic activist, Sunday Igboho, security forces\nhad invaded his home and shown gross disregard for human rights by the manner\nin which the invasion occurred. There were reports of killings and blood\nspilling during Igboho\u2019s home invasion. Also, the case of the invasion of the\nhome of the Islamic leader, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, where hundreds of members of\nhis sect were killed during the invasion of his home and its razing by security\nforces.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The report of the #EndSARS panel on Police brutality was damning enough. The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Enquiry received reports of massive abuse of citizens\u2019 rights by the Police and security forces, and described killings at the Lekki Tollgate on 20th October 2020, as a massacre. The panel\u2019s report which was leaked, also accused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[443],"class_list":["post-2404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-lagos-white-paper-whitewashes-endsars-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2417,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions\/2417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}