Rivers Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality and Extra-Judicial Killings said it received 171 memoranda from members of the public. The Chairman of the panel, Justice Chukwunenye Uriri (rtd.) said this at the panel’s inaugural sitting on Tuesday in Port Harcourt. Uriri said the number of petitions submitted to the panel surpassed that in […]

By Tayo Ogunbiyi The #EndSARS protests  against the now-dissolved police Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, which began as a campaign aimed at ending the spate of police brutality against innocent citizens in the country, ironically, snowballed into, perhaps, the most bizarre show of brutality against the police. While giving gory statistics of the losses suffered by […]

By Bashir Bello – Kano Over 190 Civil Society and Community Based Organizations in Kano State have at the weekend called on Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje to set up a Judicial panel of inquiry into the alleged Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS or Police brutality in the state. The group made the call in a letter […]

By Gabriel Enogholase – Benin A petitioner, Mr Issac Edoh has told the Judicial Panel of Inquiry set up by Governor Godwin Obaseki to look into cases of police brutality, human rights violations, or allegations of extra-judicial killings by operatives of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), how his son was allegedly killed by the […]

The Ebonyi Judicial Panel of Inquiry into cases of police brutality, human rights violations or related extra-judicial killings, says it has so far received five petitions from the public. Rtd. Justice Alloy Nwankwo, the Chairman of the panel, made the disclosure on Monday during the panel’s inaugural sitting in Abakaliki. Nwankwo, who is the immediate […]