By our Reporter
The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry set up as a result of ENDSARS crises to unravel what happened at the Lekki Toll gate and to listen to the complain of victims of harrasment and brutality.
The panel said there is nothing it can do if the army fails to appear before it with respect to the Lekki toll gate shooting.
Dorris Okuwobi, a retired judge heading the panel, spoke on Saturday while responding to a counsel who appeared before the panel to clarify issues with the Nigerian Army.
The judge who explained that the panel “cannot force the army to come” to state its case in the Lekki shooting incident.
Okuwobi also alleged that reports about Akinlolu Kehinde, the counsel who represented the Nigerian Army in the earlier proceedings, and his ‘refusal’ to appear before the panel are not accurate.
“We cannot force them to come. We will take on the petitions as if they are not present, I made that very clear in the ruling. We have tried our best, served the legal summons, served the Chief of Army Staff, beyond that, there is no more the panel can do.
“The reports by the press have not presented the rulings of the panel, we never said he (Mr Kehinde) refused to come. The reports were not accurate, so do let him know that we did not in any way make such report,” she said.