FG will address #EndSARS report soon – Adesina

The Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Femi Adesina, says the Federal Government of Nigeria will only address areas of the #Endsars Panel that specifically concerns it.

The Lagos Judicial Panel on Police Brutality submitted its report to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu last Monday and many Nigerians have been clamouring for the President to make a pronouncement on it but Adesina has clarified that the FG would only address the areas that concern it.

Adesina who stated this during an interview on Channels Television’s Breakfast Programme, Sunrise Daily, on Monday, explained steps that the Federal Government will take in handling the situation.

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“What would happen is that when the states come up with pronouncements on that panel report, which would then be of interest to the Federal Government.

“When the reports come out, the ones that are Federal in nature will be considered. Some things would be Federal in nature, the Federal Government would tackle that but things that are state in nature, the state government will handle.

“There is an Attorney General of the Federation who will advise and the needful would be done,” Adesina said.

The presidential spokesperson, however, said he was not aware of some states that have completed their inquiry have so far submitted their reports to the Federal Government.

“I am not quite sure of that, but I know that areas that would affect the Federal Government will be looked into by the Federal Government.”

Speaking on the idea behind the setting up of the probe panel, he noted that the Federal Government did not give a directive for their set-up but it was just “an idea” suggested to the state government.

“It couldn’t have been a directive because the Federal Government doesn’t have the power. It was just an idea,” he said.