A human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, and nine others have been asked to appear before the federal high court in Abuja over the setting up of an independent panel to probe killings during the #EndSARS protest that threw the country into pandemonium in October 2020 leaving some dead and several wounded.
The plaintiff, Lucky Odigie, and nine others have asked the court to restrain the defendants from setting up any parallel independent inquiry to probe any alleged killings of Nigerians, including security operatives and the destruction of properties following the deployment of security operatives in the wake of the #EndSARS protests in Nigeria.
In the originating summons, the plaintiff among several prayed the court to determine whether, by virtue of the Tribunal of Inquiry Act 1990 and all other extant Federal and State laws, regulations and enactments in Nigeria, the Defendants under the name and style of Alliance on Surviving COVID-19 And Beyond (ASCAB) can validly and legally constitute or set up a parallel independent panel of inquiry to probe the killings of Nigerians.
They, therefore, want the court to issue an order of perpetual injunction restraining the Defendants from further conducting any parallel independent inquiry to probe any alleged killings of Nigerians, including security operatives and the destruction of properties following the deployment of security operatives in the wake of the #EndSARS protests in Nigeria.
They also want the court to declare that the purported panel set up is undermining the different panels set up by the different state governors to probe the alleged police brutality and human rights abuses by security agents, therefore it should be declared null and void.
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No date has been fixed for hearing .
Editor: Nkoli Omhoudu
