#EndSARS: Ogun Panel Treats 58 Petitions, Sets To Submit Report

The Ogun State Judicial Panel of Investigation on Police
Brutality, Human Rights Violations and Extra Judicial Killings,
sitting at the Magistrate Court 1, Isabo, Abeokuta, has ended its
sitting, declaring 58 petitions were treated.

The panel chairman, Justice Solomon Olugbemi, who made this
known in Abeokuta on Monday, while fielding questions from
journalists at the end of the six months sitting period, said: ‘The
Panel received a total of 106 petitions, out of which 58 were
treated and the remaining 48 were either withdrawn, rejected or
abandoned wholly or half-way by the petitioners.’

Olugbemi said some petitions were rejected because they were not
in line with the terms of reference that the panel was given by the
state government.

He assured all petitioners and respondents of justice without
fear or favour, saying the panel’s report was ready for submission
to the government.

He added that the submission, it is left for government to
implement the report or not.

Speaking on some of the challenges faced by the panel, the
Chairman said: ‘Although the panel encountered some logistics
challenges but we were able to surmount them.’

The Ogun State Judicial Panel of Investigation on Police
Brutality, Human Rights Violations and Extra Judicial Killings,
sitting at the Magistrate Court 1, Isabo, Abeokuta, has ended its
sitting, declaring 58 petitions were treated.

The panel chairman, Justice Solomon Olugbemi, who made this
known in Abeokuta on Monday, while fielding questions from
journalists at the end of the six months sitting period, said: ‘The
Panel received a total of 106 petitions, out of which 58 were
treated and the remaining 48 were either withdrawn, rejected or
abandoned wholly or half-way by the petitioners.’

Olugbemi said some petitions were rejected because they were not
in line with the terms of reference that the panel was given by the
state government.

He assured all petitioners and respondents of justice without
fear or favour, saying the panel’s report was ready for submission
to the government.

He added that the submission, it is left for government to
implement the report or not.

Speaking on some of the challenges faced by the panel, the
Chairman said: ‘Although the panel encountered some logistics
challenges but we were able to surmount them.’