The fallouts of the submission of the #EndSARS report to the Lagos State Government by the probe panel it set up continued to get messier as a member of the panel, Mr Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN, alleged threat to life and urged Nigerians to take the government responsible should anything happen to him.
In a statement published on his Facebook Timeline on Monday, the silk accused people close to the government, including two of its lawyers have gone to town to malign his character and rubbished the report of the panel.
He said the alarm became crucial at this point as one of the witnesses who appeared before the panel was viciously attacked by some unknown people, who matcheted her in an attack in her home at the weekend.
According to him, all members of the panel, including himself had agreed because they had thought the government would allow them to work and come up with independent results.
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The statement reads: “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.
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 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 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 serous 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 believe that the Panel was meant to say the truth and nothing but the truth, which is what we have done. It is left for government and Nigerians to do the needful with the report of the Panel.
God bless Nigeria.”
Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN
