Adegboruwa also said the stabbing of a witness of the panel, Kamsi Ibeh, shows the extent the government could go in intimidating them
By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
The Lagos EndSARS panel report which ruffled a lot of feathers is being resisted intellectually and with brute violence allegedly, by those indicted.
On Sunday, November 21, Kamsi Ibeh, an eyewitness to the Lekki shooting who also testified at the panel, was stabbed while returning from work.
She said her assailants first identified her, confirmed that she was involved with the EndSARS Lekki shooting panel and then stabbed her with knives. She narrowly survived and posted disturbing photos of her injuries.
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She narrated what happened: “Last night, I was attacked on my way back from TNS by three guys whom I thought were passersby.
“We were standing at the bus-stop waiting for a vehicle, only for one of them to shed light on my face. One said, this girl from the panel, shebi na una sabi pass, una no wan step back abi?” she said.
She continued: “They said if they killed me, they would see how I would continue to agitate for justice. So, I told them I don’t know what they’re talking about. They started hitting me. See my back, see my leg. They started cutting me like I am a thief. I survived by the grace of God because I thought I would die at that bus stop,” she said.
A member of the Lagos EndSARS panel, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has raised the alarm that his life is under threat after he and his colleagues submitted the report of their work to the Lagos State government.
Adegboruwa says in a statement: “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.
“I have 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 indeed the masses of our people, for a national assignment.
“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 the government responsible should anything happen to me.
“Just last night, one of the prominent EndSARS protesters who testified before the Panel, Miss Kamsiyochukwu Ibeh, 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,” Adegboruwa says.