BY BOLUWAJI OBAHOPO, Lokoja
A Human Rights Group in Kogi State, Human Rights Defence Network, HRDN, has petitioned the Amnesty International and the National Human Rights Commission, HRC, over the spate of intimidation, unlawful arrest and police extra-judicial killing in the State.

The petition which was made available to Saturday Vanguard in Lokoja yesterday said aside the indiscriminate arrest of innocent people without proper investigation, the police in the last two months has killed more than four innocent persons in the Central Senatorial axis of the state.

The petition which was signed by the Secretary of the group, Comrade Sunday Jatto stated that Itopa Lawal, Siyaka Rufai Adavize, and Matthew Paul a taxi driver among others have become victims of police extra-judicial killing in the State.

The petition also stated that on July 27, one Siyaki Salami, a mechanic, who was on his way to his workshop was shot at his two leg by police over flimsy excuse, “Even though the police have admitted their faults and later took the mechanic boy to a private hospital in Lokoja and begin paying for the cost of treatments, meanwhile, such has caused the mechanic boy lots of damages including deformation of the two legs”.