Lagos #EndSARS panel awards N10m to Kolade Johnson’s family
The Lagos judicial panel has awarded the sum of N10 million to the family of Kolade Johnson, one of the many victims of police extrajudicial killing.
Johnson was shot during a raid by police officers at Onipetesi area in Lagos while watching an English premiership match between Tottenham and Manchester United on March 31, 2019.
The trigger-happy officers were identified as Ogunyemi Olalekan, a police inspector, and Godwin Orji, a sergeant. While the inspector was dismissed from the force after he was found guilty, Orji was acquitted.
Shortly after the ENDSARS judicial panel was constituted by the Lagos state government, the family of the deceased wrote a petition demanding justice. At the resumed hearing of the panel today, the chairman of the panel, Justice Doris Okuwobi, announced the award of N10 million compensation to the family. The award sum was received by the mother of the deceased.
May Almighty God comfort his family
That’s good of them and I hope they will pay it
May his gentle soul rest in perfect peace, the person that is watching football on his own
This incident is very pathetic, so sad
may his soul rest in peace and also that compensation will not bring back the life lost……….
may his soul rest in peace and also that compensation will not bring back the life lost……………