LAGOS STATE JUDICIAL PANEL OF INQUIRY.... Day 1
The first witness at the Lagos State Panel of inquiry into police brutality has described how he was tortured and had teeth extracted by members of the now disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Sars).
Okoye Agu was detained after his boss accused him of stealing from work.
In his testimony, Mr Agu said that in 2014 he was beaten, paraded in public as a criminal, suspended upside down and had two of his teeth pulled out. In addition, his car and mobile phones were sold without his permission by Sars officers.
The police have refused to pay him compensation despite a court order. He said his family did not know where he was and when they arrived at the police station after 47 days of searching for him, his wife and mother were also beaten in front of him.
The three other cases scheduled to be heard on Tuesday had to be adjourned as some of the relevant witnesses were not available.
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