Lagos panel summons IG, three others over police brutality

Oluwatosin Omojuyigbe

 The Lagos State Judicial Panel on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and other Matters on Tuesday summoned the Inspector General Police to appear before it over alleged aggravated assault by policemen on one Prince Adenwale Adewuyi, which made him to be bedridden.

76-year-old Adewuyi, through his lawyer Debo Adeleke, told the panel that the police refused to release his 26 acres of farmland at Age-Mowo, Badagry, seized from him on December 13, 2013, despite the recommendation of the Citizens Mediation Centre.

Adeleke, who urged the panel to summon the IGP...readmore