Oyo State Judicial Panel on Police Brutality has adjourned the petition brought by Mr Afolabi Ayodamope against the Nigeria Police Force till 15th June, 2021 due to unavailability of witnesses.
It would be recalled that Twenty three year old man, Ayodamope Afolabi alleged that officers of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, falsely accused him of carrying a sachet of weed in his bag on 16th September, 2020.
The accused Mr Ayodamope presented his case before the Oyo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police brutality led by Retired Justice Badejoko Adeniji in a petition with number OYJPPB/043.
The 23 years old Afolabi said he was returning from his office at Seyi Makinde Court Center where he works on 16th September, 2020 when some SARS officers stopped the bike he boarded at Total Garden Area in Ibadan.
The petitioner explained that the SARS officers collected his bag, checked it and found nothing, but they later planted weed in his bag to implicate him.
He said the officers thereafter set on him and started beating him and told him he was under arrest for being in possession of weed.
Mr Ayodamope added that he remanded till the second day before he was allowed to put a call to his mother, who was made to pay fifty thousand naira for his bail.
During the panel sitting the petitioner appeared before the panel without any legal representation while counsel for the respondent, the Nigeria Police Force, Mr Matthew Ojeh, said he was not done with his investigation on the petition.
Funmilola Obagbayegun
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