A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has intimated the public about what he described as “vicious attacks” on members of the Lagos judicial panel of inquiry on police brutality after the team submitted its findings to the state government.
Adegboruwa who is a member of the panel said in a statement that since the panel submitted its report to the Executive Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu recently, panel members have become the subject of vicious attacks from suspected agents of the government.
He said: “All manner of allegations had been heaped upon panel members, some of us were called unprintable names.
Also, he dismissed reports that members of the panel lobbied for an appointment into the team by saying they were chosen on merit.
Adegboruwa said: “As a matter of fact, in my case, His Excellency, the Governor of Lagos State, appealed to me to accept my appointment, which I saw as a call to national service.
“The primary reason the governor gave to me then was that he wanted men and women of integrity, independent and not subject to manipulation, to be on the panel.”
Furthermore, he described a bribery claim levelled against an unnamed counsel to the Lagos State government as “unfair and ungodly.”
He noted that the panel awaits the Lagos State government’s White Paper on the report.
