The mother of paralysed 34-year-old, Ndukwe Ekekwe, wept before a Lagos State judicial panel of inquiry as the case of her son was adjourned for the second time.


The case was adjourned till 20 November due to the absence of police counsel.


Ekekwe, now wheelchair bound, said he was attacked by officers of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS),
Ekekwe’s mother, wept when the Chairman of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry for Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and Other Matters, retired Justice Doris Okuwobi, adjourned the case.


She has been accompanying her son to the venue of the proceedings of the nine-man panel at Lekki, Lagos.


Ekekwe, a trader, on Nov. 3, narrated to the panel the circumstances that led to his paralysis.


He claimed that he was thrown down from a two-storey building at the Alaba International Market, Ojo, Lagos, by officers of SARS.


He consequently sustained spinal cord injuries.


He told the panel that SARS never told him the reason for his arrest.

On Tuesday, Okuwobi said the case had to be adjourned for the second time.