{"id":279120,"date":"2020-11-07T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=279120"},"modified":"2020-11-07T22:58:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T21:58:05","slug":"absence-of-youths-representatives-stalls-hearing-of-lagos-judicial-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=279120","title":{"rendered":"Absence of Youths representatives stalls hearing of Lagos Judicial Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"#ENDSARS:
\nThe Lagos Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for victims of SARS related abuse and other matters, proceedings couldn\u2019t go on Saturday for lack of quorum.
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\nThe panel had scheduled yesterday to take evidence from the Nigerian Army but failed to continue due to the absence of youths representatives, Majekodunmi Temitope and Oduala Bolatito Olorunrinu.
\nThe two youth representatives,Mr Temitope Majekodunmi and Ms Olorunrinu Oduala did not make an appearance at the panel due to the freezing by the Central Bank of Nigeria of Oduala\u2019s First Bank of Nigeria account.
\nHer bank account was allegedly frozen on Nov. 6 due to her alleged sponsorship of the #EndSARS protests.
\nMajekodunmi had earlier taken permission, from the panel that he was not going to be around, as he has exams to write, for two days, which is scheduled to hold from Friday, November 6- 7, 2020.
\nCounsel to the Nigerian Army Mr A. T Kehinde (SAN), announced his appearance.
\nHowever, the Chairman of the panel, Justice Doris Okuwobi (rtd) announced the suspension of the sitting of the panel till November 14.
\nShe said: \u201cWe are confronted with a situation which prevented her Oduala Bolatito Olorunrinu, from coming. We do not know if the two youths\u2019 representatives will eventually pull out.
\n\u201cWe don\u2019t want a situation where proceedings would go on and later it is impugned with controversy for lack of quorum\u201d.
\nJustice Okuwobi said it is important that all settings of the panel are held in accordance with the law.
\n\u201cIn all matters, we have to wait for them (youths representatives) to join us. Without them, we are handicapped\u201d, she stressed.
\nLead counsel to Nigerian Army, A. T. Kehinde (SAN) said they came before the panel pursuant to a summon dated October 28.
\nKehinde expressed appreciation to members of the panel for taking them into confidence on the challenges it is facing.
\nHe asked to be guided on the next date his client would appear before the panel.
\nCounsel to Lagos State Government, Olukayode Enitan (SAN) aligned himself with the submission of Kehinde.
\nAccording to Enitan: \u201cThe issue of quorum is of utmost importance as to the competence of the panel to proceed and as to the integrity of recommendation to be made at the end of proceedings.
\n\u201cTherefore, the directive for the panel to adjourn is quite appropriate.\u201d
\nOlumide Fusika (SAN) who appeared for the first time said he accepted to represent some victims who wanted to make a presentation before the panel.
\nHe listed some of the victims to include Raimi Olumide, Solomon Samuel Ageze, Olamilekan Sanusi, Ayodeji Beckley, Samuel Asala, Agbese Isiawu, Onileowo Legend among others.
\nFusika, said they would await further directive from the panel.
\nFormer Chairman, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Ikeja Branch, Adesina Ogunlana, counsel to three #ENDSARS protesters, also aligned himself with the submission of other counsels.
\nOgunlana said the development within the panel was not only embarrassing to the panel but also to counsels.
\nHe claimed to have privileged information that there were plans to bring in thugs to disrupt the sittings of the panel.
\nOgunlana said his interest was in ensuring that the panel heard the truth about what transpired during the protest and at Lekki Tollgate.
\nHe advised the panel to be proactive and to ask the government to do the needful.
\n\u201cGovernment cannot approbate and reprobate. This disconnect must be addressed immediately\u201d, he said.
\nOgunlana further stated that he has no doubt about the competence of the panel.
\nTo move forward, he advised the panel to be proactive and give ideas to the government on what must be done.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Lagos Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for victims of SARS related abuse and other matters, proceedings couldn\u2019t go on Saturday for lack of quorum. The panel had scheduled yesterday to take evidence from the Nigerian Army but failed to continue due to the absence of youths representatives, Majekodunmi Temitope and Oduala Bolatito Olorunrinu. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":278119,"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":[3],"tags":[15827,250],"class_list":["post-279120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-endsars-2","tag-lagos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279120","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=279120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/278119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}