Two petitioners before the Kwara State judicial panel of inquiry on #EndSARS protest, in Ilorin on Wednesday, narrated how they were tortured and humiliated by men of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The petitioners, Alhaji Kehinde Gobir and Alhaji Shuaib Jawando, who accused the SARS officers of the alleged high depth of impunity and […]
A woman whose Police Inspector husband, Ayodeji Erinfolam, died after being shot on the stomach on October 12 in the Surulere area of Lagos during the #EndSARS protest, Friday narrated her pain at the incident. Mrs. Olamide Erinfolam told the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Enquiry and Restitution for Victims of SARS related abuses and […]
DJ Switch, a disc jockey, has pleaded with the International Criminal Court (ICC) to commence its investigation on the attacks on #EndSARS protesters by security forces across Nigeria. She was addressing the office of Fatou Bensouda, the ICC’s prosecutor, in a virtual event on Thursday — in the wake of the court’s resolve to carry […]
Members of the Taraba State Judicial Panel of Inquiry hold their maiden session in Jalingo on November 9, 2020. The Judicial Panel on Police Brutality and Restitution of Victims on Wednesday received a complaint of one Mrs Esther Iruoha who alleged that her husband was killed at a checkpoint by a police officer. Esther Iruoha, […]
The Nigerian Army on Saturday reportedly rejected witness summons issued for Major General Godwin Umelo and Lieutenant Colonel S.O Bello by the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Enquiry and Restitution for Victims of SARS related abuses and the Lekki Toll Gate accident. The panel had summoned both men to explain their role in the military’s […]
American media house, Cable News Network, has shunned a summons issued on it to appear before the Lagos State Panel of Judicial Inquiry probing the alleged killing of #EndSARS protesters by soldiers at the Lekki tollgate , Lagos on the night of October 20. The foreign media house contended that it does not fall under […]
The Edo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry set up to look into allegations of brutality by the now disbanded Police Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) has summoned the state Commissioner of Police, Johnson Babatunde Kokumo, and SP, John . E. Agaga, to appear before it over alleged murder of five youths on December 21 The youths […]
The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Enquiry and Restitution set up to investigate cases of police brutality and other related abuses has reserved judgment in the petition filed by Mrs Nzube Obiechina, the younger sister of alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudeme Onwuadike popularly known as Evans. The petitioner, a schoolteacher was allegedly detained and tortured for […]
The suspended Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has finally honoured the invitation of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) in Abuja. Sources close to the matter also disclosed that the suspended EFCC boss was at the CCB office in Abuja on Thursday, December 3, 2020 with his lawyers […]
The Nigeria police force (NPF) has applied to withdraw the suit against the judicial panels set up to probe allegations of brutality and human rights abuses against the force. In a suit marked FHC/ ABJ/CS/1492/2020 and filed by O.M Atoyebi, police counsel, the force had argued that the establishment of panels of inquiry by state […]
