#EndSARS: Hold government responsible if anything happens to me – Adegboruwa

A member of the Lagos State #EndSARS Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution on Police Brutality and Other Related Abuses, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa SAN, on Monday alleged threats to his life since the submission of the panel’s report to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State. Adegboruwa in a statement on Monday, cried out that the good people of Nigeria, his professional colleagues in the Nigerian Bar Association, his comrades in the civil rights movement, and the people of Nigeria, should hold the government responsible should anything happen to him.

The legal practitioner said he committed no crime but only accepted to serve in the panel in search of justice on the request of the Lagos State government.

Adegboruwa declared in the statement on Monday: “I have not committed any crime beyond joining other eminent Nigerians with unblemished integrity, to accept the nomination of government on behalf of my constituency, the Nigerian Bar Association, and the civil society and the indeed the masses of our people, for a national assignment.

“Two prominent lawyers of the government have openly incited opinions against me on national television, with mindless accusations. I have, however, refused to be intimidated or bend to the tactics of the government to be silenced.

“I urge the good people of Nigeria, my professional colleagues in the Nigerian Bar Association, my comrades in the civil rights movement, and the people of Nigeria, to hold the government responsible should anything happen to me.

“Just last night, one of the prominent #EndSARS protesters who testified before the Panel, Miss Kamsiyochukwu Ibe, was attacked and dealt serious machete blows, in what was clearly an attempted murder, as reported by her counsel, with very disturbing photos.

“I heeded the clarion call to serve by the government with the honest belief that the Panel was meant to say the truth and nothing but the truth, which is what we have done. It is left for the government and Nigerians to do the needful with the report of the Panel.”

He decried that “Since the submission of the report of the Lagos #EndSARS Panel, there have been lots of threats and attacks, by those suspected to be agents of the government, upon me, especially in the media.”

The report of the panel was submitted on November 15, and Governor Sanwo-Olu appointed a 4-man committee to work on a White Paper.