Girl Tells Panel How SARS Bullet Shattered Her Leg
A petitioner, Mrs. Hannah Olugbodi, a hairstylist who now walks with the help of crutches, on Saturday informed the Lagos #EndSARS Panel how she was hit by a stray bullet on June 6, 2018.
On that date, she returned house from work along with her husband and kids earlier than accumulating cash from her husband to purchase pepper to make dinner. As she went to the market she heard gunshots.
“I used to be hit by a stray bullet and I keep in mind passing out, I awoke in a automotive at LUTH,” she stated. “I used to be in a lot ache.”
She stated after being given 4 baggage of drip, she realised she couldn’t transfer her left leg.
She shouted, “My God, why me?”
The physician informed her that saving the leg was 50/50 and that it might be amputated.
She stated 4 surgical procedures have been really helpful.
“The primary was to place a steel within the leg, the second was to chop elements of the bone which the bullet had reduce to fragments as a result of it wouldn’t survive. The third surgical procedure was a pores and skin graft,” she stated.
At this level of her testimony, the petitioner confirmed the courtroom the extent of her accidents. She stated she remains to be in ache and her total life has since modified, all due to a stray bullet.
She additionally testified that she’s not been capable of work, feed her kids or carry out fundamental chores. Her husband has needed to promote his land to pay for her remedies.
She stated she spent six months on the Lagos State College Educating Hospital, LUTH, and no police official visited. She stated at some extent, the hospital threatened to cease treating her after she ran out of cash.
The petitioner offered a number of hospital payments and paperwork in help of her case. She additionally offered images of her accidents detailing each stage of her surgical procedures.
In line with her, she wrote letters to the Lagos State Authorities and the Ministry of Justice in search of for help and redress however acquired no response.
The panel admitted the letters in proof as reveals.
The witness stated she requires additional cosmetic surgery so her legs will be “balanced”.
Below cross-examination by counsel to the police, Joseph Eboseremen, she admitted that she didn’t write any letter to the Commissioner of Police. The counsel additionally requested if she has any of the pellets extracted from her leg at LUTH to which she replied, “the bullet scattered my bone.”
And though she stated she has no ballistic report, she was emphatic that the gunshots got here from a SARS official.
On the prompting of the police counsel, her husband, Oluwaseun Olugbodi was referred to as to additionally testify.
He stated he heard the gunshots and watched the scene from his balcony. Neighbors then got here to inform him his spouse had been shot.
He recounted how they went spherical totally different hospitals, from the Igbobi Hospital, to the army hospital earlier than they have been accepted at LUTH the place he was informed that his spouse’s leg could be amputated if he didn’t present cash for her remedy on time. He stated he then ran round household and mates attempting to boost cash.
On how he knew that it was SARS who shot his spouse, the witness stated he was informed by some lodge employees that the SARS officers got here to a close-by lodge the place a gaggle of boys have been watching soccer. SARS suspected that these have been yahoo boys and once they resisted arrest, the SARS officers shot into the air.
“It was a kind of bullets that hit my spouse,” he stated.
He added that the DPO later confirmed it was Gbagada SARS.
When the police counsel requested if he has any proof to indicate that there was any taking pictures on the day in query, he replied within the unfavorable.
The case was then adjourned to December 8.
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