Appolonia Adeyemi 
The Lagos State Government has expressed its readiness to comply with the orders of a Federal High Court in Lagos directing an inquiry into the manner and cause of death of Mr. Pelumi Onifade, a 20-year-old reporter with Gboah TV, who was reportedly arrested by the police while covering the #EndSARS protests in October 2020 and later found dead.
This is contained in a statement by the MRA on Friday and made available to Saturday Telegraph.
In a letter dated September 2, 2024, addressed to the law firm of Charles Musa & Co, lawyers to Media Rights Agenda (MRA), which sued the state government over Mr. Onifade’s death, the Chief State Counsel in the Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecutions, Mr. Oluwaseun Akinde, on behalf of the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, said that the Coroner Unit of the Directorate would write to the State’s Chief Coroner, Justice Mojisola Dada, to request her to convoke an inquest into the death, in compliance with the court’s orders.
