There was a mild drama at the Lagos State Judicial Panel on Restitution for Victims of SARS related abuses and other matters when a petitioner spotted one of his alleged assaulters, on the police defence team.
The petitioner, Mr. Okolieagu Abunike, had just being cross-examined by police counsel, Mr. Emmanuel Eze when he sought the panel’s permission to speak.
Me. Abunike, a father of five, had already answered questions about his allegations that in 2012, Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) operatives detained and tortured him for forty seven days at their Ikeja office, without trial.
But on getting permission to speak from the head of the Panel, Justice Doris Okuwobi, he pointed at the police lead counsel, Mr. Joseph Ebosereme, and accused him of assault.
Mr. Abunike told the panel that the Police Counsel, Ebosereme slapped him four times at State Criminal Investigating and Intelligence Department, SCIID, Panti, when he went to serve Police a court process.
Responding, Mr. Ebosereme denied the allegation, claiming that it arose following his refusal to compromise his integrity in the N200m judgment debt recovery case involving a law firm linked with the petitioner.
Modupe Arotolu
