A Federal High Court sitting has ordered the state government to take all necessary steps to ensure an investigation into the death of a 20-year-old reporter with an online television channel, PELUMI ONIFADE.

Justice OLAYINKA FAJI also ordered the Lagos State Government to conduct a coroner’s inquest to ascertain the cause of the death of ONIFADE as well as identify and prosecute those responsible.

A press statement by the Communications Officer of the Media Rights Agenda, IDOWU ADEWALE says the court made these orders while delivering judgment in a suit filed by the non-governmental organisation over the death of the journalist against the police and the Lagos State Government.

ONIFADE was reportedly arrested by officers attached to a Lagos State Task Force while covering the #EndSARS protests in 2020 and was later found dead at a mortuary in the Ikorodu area of Lagos where his body had been deposited.