Hoodlums have attacked and macheted an EndSARS protester who testified before the Lagos judicial panel on police brutality, Kamsichukwu Ibeh.
Ibeh was reportedly attacked on the evening of Sunday, November 21 in the Sangotedo area of Lagos while she was heading home from work.
A trending video on social media showed her with machete cuts on her hands and other parts of her body.
Ibeh, who was crying in the video said, “Last night, I was attacked on my way back from TNS by three guys whom I thought were passersby. We were standing at the bus-stop waiting for a vehicle, only one of them to shed light on my face.
One said, this girl from the panel, shebi na una dey claim say una Sabi pass, una no wan stop abi? They said if they killed me, they would see how I would continue to agitate for justice. So, I told them I don’t know what they’re talking about. They started hitting me.
See my back, see my leg. They started cutting me like I am a thief. I survived by the grace of God because I thought I would die at that bus stop. This is what they did to me.”
Meanwhile, counsel to the witness, Adesina Ademola Ogunlana, said criminals intending to kill and silence her for testifying at the panel, attacked Ms. Ibeh on Sunday night.
Speaking at a press conference in Ikeja on Monday, Mr Ogunlana said the criminals inflicted injuries on Ms Ibeh’s body with machetes.
He said that the attackers while macheting Ms. Ibeh, warned her to desist from sharing her testimony, and thereafter left her to die after.
He said members of the EndSARS panel would hold the Lagos State and the Federal Government responsible for the murderous attack on Ms. Ibeh.
“May I say at this junction that yesterday night, enemies of the #EndSARS movement launched a murderous attack on one of the leaders of the movement Kamsiyochukwu Ibeh.
The attackers were not criminals who came to rob her of personal effect, neither were they rapists. The criminals came with identities and purpose.
As they were cutting her with machetes they said we know you and since you #EndSARS people have been warmed to stop and you didn’t, when you die go and continue in heaven.
They inflicted serious machete cuts on her and left her for dead. That Kamsi is still alive is only by the grace of God.
We hold the agents of the government, particularly the Lagos state government responsible for this heinous attack. The intention is clear and it is a prophecy of years to come.”
Mr Adesina said the government “earnestly desires to silence the #EndSARS protesters and reverse the position of the Lagos state panel of enquiry.”
“Lagos state and federal government earnestly desire to silence the #EndSARS protesters and reverse the position of the Lagos state panel of enquiry into the abuse which indented the Lagos state and federal government that indeed a massacre took place at the Lekki toll gate on October 20, 2020. They have failed and we will continue to face their desperate rants.”
