By Ife Osemedua
365Daily – A Senior Advocate of Nigeria and member of the EndSARS Panel set up by the Lagos State government, Ebun-Olu Adegberuwa, had raised the alarm over his safety and those of other members of the panel that recently submitted its report to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
Adegboruwa, in a statement issued on Monday, November 22, 2021, said government should be held responsible if anything happens to him.
The panel was set up to probe cases of police brutality after the EndSARS protests in 2020.
But controversy has engulfed the report of the panel after a portion of it was leaked last week, resulting in public altercation between government representatives and Adegberuwa (SAN).
According to him, 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.”
He said he had 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 the people, for a national assignment.
Adegberuwa went further to state: “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 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 government and Nigerians to do the needful with the report of the Panel.”