By Emmanuel Oladesu
The Oyo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality and other related matters, also known as #EndSARS panel, yesterday concluded its public sittings on 163 cases brought before it.
The panel had after yesterday’s sitting announced the conclusion of public hearings on all matters after 63 sittings spanning over six months.
After considering 163 petitions submitted to it by members of the public, the panel said it would begin the process of reviewing each petition through technical meetings and deliberations, which will lead to the final report that will be submitted to the state government for implementation.
Chairman of the panel, Justice Bolajoko Adeniji (retd), who declared the winding up of the panel’s public sittings at its last sitting held at the House of Chiefs, House of Assembly Complex, Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan, said that the panel’s report will be submitted to the relevant authority in due course.
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Justice Adeniji, a former Chief Judge of Oyo State, appreciated the governor for appointing men and women of integrity, probity and honest disposition into the panel.
She equally appreciated the Secretary to the State Government, Mrs. Olubami Adeosun, the Ministry of Justice, the Nigerian Bar Association and the police legal team, among others, for different roles they played while the sittings lasted.
Adeniji said: “The work has been very strenuous and tasking but the panel members and all the stakeholders that are the petitioners, witnesses, police legal representatives, counsel, especially the pro-bono lawyers, news media men were all up to the task.”The panel’s report will be submitted to the relevant authority in due course.”
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