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#EndSARS: Ex-Finance Minister, Nenadi Usman demands N5bn over murder of niece
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By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
Former Minister of Finance, Senator Nenadi Usman, on yesterday, approached the Independent Investigative Panel on human rights violations by the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, and other Units of the Nigeria Police Force, sitting in Abuja, to seek redress for the extra-judicial murder of her niece, Miss Anita Akapson, by a trigger-happy police officer in 2018.
31-year old Miss Akapson was shot at close range by a Deputy Superintendent of Police, Godwin Wagozie, on October 13, 2018.
The Police initially claimed that the deceased who had just returned to Nigeria after her graduation from Kent University in the United Kingdom, was killed in a case of mistaken identity. It stated that an officer shot her because he thought she was an armed robber that was escaping from the scene of a crime.
Mar 1, 2021
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The independent investigative panel on violations of rights by the defunct SARS set up by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has ordered the Inspector-General of Police and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Commissioner of Police to set up a high powered delegation to visit and condole with the family of a former Minister of State for Finance, Senator Nenadi Usman.
The panel gave the order on Monday after listening to a petition filed before it by the family of George Deyjih Akapson and Senator Usman on behalf of her niece, late Miss Anita Akapson.
The family had alleged that the late Anita was extra-judicially killed and joined DSP Godwin Ngochukwu Wagozie; FCT CP and IGP as respondents.