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Youth rep quits panel on police brutality

Youth rep quits panel on police brutality

ONE of the two youth members of a Lagos state panel investigating police brutality and the deadly shooting of protesters has resigned, she has written in a tweet. Rinu Oduala, 22, cited "undue intimidation of peaceful protesters" and the panel's recent vote to re-open Lekki Toll Gate, where the Oct. 20 shootings took place, before the panel concluded its investigation. "I will be stepping down from the Lagos Judicial Panel as it is now obvious that the government is only out to use us for performative actions," she said in a Tweet. A Lagos state government spokesman did not immediately…
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