Makinde approves scholarship for Endsars victim in Oyo

By Ogundele Olanrewaju

Oyo state governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, on Wednesday, received the reports of Oyo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry into Police Brutality and other related matters, that was set up on the 10th of November, 2020.

The governor, who received the report from the Chairman of the panel, Hon. Justice Bolajoko Adeniji (rtd) at the Executive Chamber, Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan, assured that the panel’s work will not be in vain and the government will soon implement some of the recommendations.

The governor maintained that the state will provide automatic scholarship to a 23-year young boy, Samuel Ogundeji, who was falsely accused of stealing a banker’s wallet and brutalized by the men of SARS, and resulted to blindness.

The governor, however, commended members of the panel for the work done, describing one of the panel members, who is also his special adviser on strategy and political matters, Hon. Babatunde Oduyoye as a problem solver.

The Chairman of the panel, Hon. Justice Bolajoko Adeniji (rtd), said that the panel received One Hundred and Fifty-One (151) petitions, adding that One Hundred and Twenty -One (121) petitions were heard to finality and were adjourned sine die for award of compensations.

She said that (30) Thirty petitions were struck out for various reasons, adding that awards of compensations were categorized into five groups and recommended some achievements.