#EndSARS: Videos of attacks on police stations presented to panel downloaded from …

Most of the videos showing the attacks on police stations across the country during last year’s #EndSARS protests were downloaded from the internet, Oludotun Odubona, an Assistant Commissioner of Police, told the Lagos Judicial Panel of Enquiry on Friday. Mr Odubona, who represented Hakeem Odumosu, the state’s police commissioner, disclosed this while being cross-examined by Adesina Ogunlana and Oluwatomi Olagunju, counsels to the #EndSARS protesters. Mr Odubona had earlier presented several videos to the panel explaining how police officers were attacked and the activities of #EndSARS protesters. “You have brought several videos before the panel. Can you tell us your source?” Mr Olagunju asked. “Like I mentioned it before, a lot of the videos were taken from the internet,” the assistant police commissioner replied. When asked whether the police relied on the description given to them by the people who posted them on the internet, Mr Odubona said there were landmarks and other pointers that helped the police to identify the locations. Mr Olagunju said some of the videos had no bearing or connection to the protests of October 2020, yet, the police presented them as evidence for the #EndSARS protests. In a video played by the #EndSARS counsel, he…
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