The Lagos State Judicial Panel set up to investigate cases of police brutality especially involving officers of the now-defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad on Friday awarded N10 million each to two petitioners.

Thelagostimes gathered that the two petitioners, Kudirat Obayomi and Hannah Olugbodi were awarded the compensation.

Olugbodi, a 35-year-old hairdresser, had in November 2020, narrated how she ended up using a crutch after her left leg was shattered by a stray bullet fired by some men of the disbanded police Special Anti-Robbery Squad who were attempting to arrest a young man with tattoos in June 2018, at the Ijeshatedo area of Lagos.

She said the SARS operatives were at Ogun City Hotel, to demand money to buy fuel for their vehicle when they saw the young man with tattoos among a group of persons watching a football match at the hotel.

According to the petitioner, the owner of the hotel, one Abu, who usually gave the SARS operatives money, was not around to attend to them.

She said the SARS operatives labelled the young man with tattoos a fraudsters.

She said an attempt by the SARS operatives to arrest and take the boy with tattoos away, was resisted by the other boys, making the SARS operatives resort to firing gunshots.