{"id":277674,"date":"2020-11-03T22:58:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T21:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=277674"},"modified":"2020-11-03T23:02:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T22:02:46","slug":"sars-operatives-threw-me-off-two-storey-building-broke-my-spine-trader-tells-lagos-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=277674","title":{"rendered":"SARS Operatives Threw Me Off Two-storey Building, Broke My Spine, Trader Tells Lagos Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hearing by the Lagos State Panel of Judicial Inquiry into complaints of human rights violations by men of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad continued on Tuesday with a trader, Ndukwe Ekekwe, narrating how he was tortured by operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad.
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Ekekwe, who appeared before the retired Justice Doris Okuwobi-led panel alongside his aged mother, Mrs Nnena, relived the harrowing details of how he broke his spine in 2018 when policemen threw him off a two-storey shopping complex at Alaba Market.
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Now paraplegic following his severed spinal cord, he narrated how he was unlawfully arrested on February 16, taken to the SARS head office at Ikeja, stripped naked and brutalised in a torture chamber.<\/p>\n

\u201cI asked them what my crime was, but none of them told me. <\/p>\n

“Other traders in the shopping complex asked the same question of the police officers. <\/p>\n

“When the people gathering are too much, they ire teargas and shot into the air to scare people away,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He recounted that when he got to the police station, he was taken to the torture room and brutalised by some other police officers in the station.<\/p>\n

He added that the operatives went back with him the next day to his three shops at Alaba, broke the doors open with hammers and were selling off his goods.<\/p>\n

He said when he challenged the officers, the leader of the team asked his subordinates to keep him busy.<\/p>\n

“When their leader asked them to keep me busy, they took me upstairs and one of them threw me down.<\/p>\n

“I passed out and I met myself at the hospital by the time I regained my consciousness,” he added.<\/p>\n

The trader said he was never told the reason for his arrest.<\/p>\n

The Chairperson of the panel admitted hospital documents, X-rays, telephone numbers of the indicted officers and other documents tendered by the petitioners as exhibits.<\/p>\n

She, thereafter, adjourned proceedings in petition to November 13 2020.<\/p>\n

The judicial panel, which began hearing last Tuesday, is also probing the shootings of October 20, 2020 at the Lekki Toll Gate where eyewitnesses said uniformed men opened fire on #EndSARS protesters, killings an unconfirmed number of persons.
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Hearing by the Lagos State Panel of Judicial Inquiry into complaints of human rights violations by men of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad continued on Tuesday with a trader, Ndukwe Ekekwe, narrating how he was tortured by operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad. Ekekwe, who appeared before the retired Justice Doris Okuwobi-led panel alongside […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2830,3],"tags":[15778,250,6799],"class_list":["post-277674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","category-news","tag-endsars","tag-lagos","tag-sars"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/277675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}