Nigeria, Aug. 31 -- The family of Ayodele Solaja Tuesday told a Judicial Panel of Inquiry that police officers lied to them after extrajudicially killing their son in August 2019.

The family showed the panel a video of police officers shooting the deceased after they handcuffed him.

In a sworn affidavit deposed to the panel, the elder sister of the deceased, Seun Bamgbose, narrated the events that led to the killing of Mr Solaja. She said the deceased, who was a youth corps member at the time, came to her house for the Sallah holidays and left the house to socialise with his friends in the neighbourhood at about 2 p.m.

She said she was informed on the following day by one Francis that her brother and one other person, identified as Ogh...