The Lagos State Judicial Panel on Restitution For Victims of SARs Related Abuses and Other Matters has summons the Inspector General Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu to appear before it over case of Police brutality, aggravated assault that has led to complete bed ridden of a Petitioner, Prince Adenwale Adewuyi.
Prince Adewuyi a seventy six years old man told the panel through his lawyer Debo Adeleke how Police encroaches on his farmlands and demolished the structure without any court order to justify their actions.
He noted that all efforts to get justice and retrieve his land has been frustrated by the IGP and his officers.
Mr. Adeleke urged the panel to summon the Police to appear before it at the next adjourned date to explain why Police disobey the resolution of the Case Management Conference, CMC on the matter.
According to him, Justice M. O. Emeya who oversee the CMC ordered the Police to pay him the sum of N856,350,000 as a compensation and to vacate his land while adjourning for report of settlement.
After entertaining submission of the petitioner, the Chairman of the panel, Justice Doris Okuwobi granted the prayer as pray and ordered the Petitioner, to serve the IGP, AIG Co-operative, COP Legal Dept, and Surveyor General of Lagos State within seven days to state their own side of the story.
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HISTORICAL FACTS OF THE CASE
Sir, we consider it very pertinent to inform this Honourable Tribunal that on 17″ December 2013, the Nigeria Police descended on our client’s commercial farm at Age-Mowo, near Badagry to commence their heartless cum wanton destruction of our client’s thriving commercial farm of about 30 years by then without any Court Order.
We equally consider it important to mention that our client’s commercial farm sprawling over 26 Acres was well fenced with concrete block and American Security wire-net on top.
The fence was about 8 feet with big farm gate house. The farm workers were over 120 (One Hundred and Twenty) men and women with their children attending schools within the locality.
It is highly inconceivable and an act of wickedness that a clearly fenced cum demarcated commercial farm could be razed down by Nigeria Police.
They simply threw caution into the cesspool of lagoon. The destruction lasted over one week.
It is equally noteworthy to mention that our client was about to start harvesting his farm produce such as fishes, pigs, cows and other things when the demolition was carried out.
The matter has been adjourned till March 31
