EndSARS: Protesters’ Lawyer Asks Panel To Summon Fashola Over Toll Gate Camera

#EndSARS protesters’ attorney, Adesina Ogunlana Esq, has asked the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry to summon the Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola.

Eko Hot Blog gathered that the panel is investigating the alleged killing of protesters by soldiers at the Lekki tollgate on October 20.

Ogunlana told the retired Justice Doris Okuwobi-led panel that the minister must be summoned to explain the circumstances through which he found a camera at the tollgate five days after the shooting incident.

According to the lawyer, the visit to the tollgate on October 25 when Fashola mysteriously found a camera “suggests an intrusion” into the evidence of the October 20 shootings.

Ogunlana said this while cross-examining the Managing Director of the Lekki Concession Company (LCC), operator of the Lekki tollgate, Mr Abayomi Omomuwa.

Ogunlana asked Omomuwa if it came to his knowledge that “on October 25, the Governor of Lagos State brought some persons to visit the tollgate?” to which, Omomuwa said he only read it in the news.

Omomuwa further told Ogunlana during his cross-examination that he was not present during the visit because he does not report to the Lagos State Government.

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Ogunlana then further quizzed asked him, “Where is that camera that the minister, popularly known as Agent Fash, removed?” And in response, Omomuwa said, “I don’t know.”

However, counsel for LCC, Rotimi Seriki, objected to Ogunlana asking the MD that question.

Replying to Seriki, the #EndSARS protesters’ lawyer said the issue was crucial to his case and prayed the panel to summon the Honourable Minister.

The panel chairman, Justice Okuwobi, told Ogunlana that he would have to follow the proper procedure if he wanted Fashola’s appearance before the panel.

Inisisting that he would be requesting that Fashola be summoned, Ogunlana said, “I wouldn’t know if it is too early for me to apply for Minister Fashola to appear before the panel to assist investigation?”