By Henry Ojelu
Extra revelations on the actions of the disbanded police Particular Anti-Theft Squad, SARS’s operatives emerged on Saturday on the Lagos EndSARS panel, as a 35-year-old hairdresser, Mrs Hannah Olugbodi, narrated how her left leg was shattered by a stray bullet fired by a SARS officer.
Olugbodi advised the panel led by Justice Doris Okuwobi (rtd) that the incident passed off in June 2018 on the Ijeshatedo space of Lagos, when SARS operatives have been trying to arrest a younger man with tattoos.
Olugbodi stated she was at Ijesha market making an attempt to purchase pepper to arrange meals for her kids to take to highschool the next day when she was hit by a stray bullet.
In line with the petitioner, the SARS operatives have been at one Ogun Metropolis Lodge, to demand cash to gas their automobile once they noticed the younger man with tattoos amongst a bunch of individuals watching a soccer match on the resort.
She stated the proprietor of the resort, one Abu, who often gave the SARS operatives cash, was not round to take care of them.
The SARS operatives labelled the younger man with tattoos a Yahoo Yahoo boy (cyber fraudster) and their try and take him away was resisted by the opposite boys, making the SARS operatives to resort to firing gunshots.
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The petitioner stated she was finally taken to the Lagos College Educating Hospital, the place they stated there was no mattress area and she or he was given 4 baggage of intravenous fluid proper within the bus.
“The physician stated they wanted to do 4 surgical procedures. The bullet affected my bone. The physician stated the second surgical procedure would contain slicing off my bone,” she stated.
Olugbodi stated she spent six months at LUTH and the physician advised her she wanted to return two years later for follow-up surgical procedure.
“I can’t stroll correctly; I really feel ache each 5 minutes. After I sat there (within the corridor), I felt the AC (air conditioner) inside my bone; I needed to exit for some time.
“I can’t stroll correctly. I stagger. Within the midnight, I can’t sleep. I can’t do my work. For 2 years, I’ve been at residence, doing nothing.
“The panel ought to compensate me and my two youngsters. It is just my husband that’s doing every thing,” Olugbodi stated.
The petitioner’s husband, Oluwaseun Olugbodi, who additionally testified earlier than the panel, corroborated his spouse’s story, including that the Divisional Police Officer within the space advised him that the stray bullet was fired by SARS operatives from Gbagada.
The panel adjourned the case until December 8 for additional listening to.
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