Lagos State judicial panel on restitution for victims of SARS related abuses and other matters sitting in Lagos has adjourned sitting in the petition of Evangelist Micheal Okorie vs the Nigeria Police to allow for the petitioner to produce court proceedings of the matter as directed by the panel to forestall the panel hearing the case simultaneously with it still ongoing in the regular court.

Recall that the respondent had raised objection to the matter being brought before the panel at it’s last sitting on the petition on the grounds, that it was still pending before a court of competent jurisdiction, which was disputed by the petitioner counsel.

Today at the panel, the petitioner counsel asked for another date to enable him access the court proceedings on the matter as directed by the panel following the recently suspended JUSUN strike action.

Ruling on the matter, the panel chairman Justice Doris Okuwobi (Rtd.) granted the request of the petitioner for another date as it adjourned the petition to June twenty-nine l to enable it produce the court proceedings on the matter so as to avert it coming up at the panel and at the regular court simultaneously which will amount to an abuse of court process.

The panel also heard four other cases out of the ten petitions slated for the day.

The panel sitting continues.