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Sampson Itode, Port Harcourt
A 68-year-old man, Sunday Joel, from Akwa Ibom State, has demanded N100m from the police for the killing of his 30-year old son, Nsikak Joel.
Sunday said Nsikak allegedly died in the custody of the now-disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Rivers State.
He told the Rivers State Judicial Commission of Inquiry sitting in Port Harcourt on Thursday that his son, who was a crane operator, died due to torture a few hours after the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Nkpolu Police Division, Port Harcourt, handed him over to operatives of SARS.
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Dennis Naku, Port Harcourt
The Rivers State Judicial Commission of Inquiry on the activities of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad and related offences, has struck out a petition by Oyigbo Indigenous Lawyers Association seeking an end to the activities of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra in Oyigbo Local Government Area.
The petition, which was filed on behalf of the people of Oyigbo LGA, also sought that the Rivers State Government should rebuild all public infrastructure destroyed in the area when hoodlums hijacked the #EndSARS protest there.
Chairman of the Panel, Hon. Justice Chukwunenye Uriri (retd.), while dismissing the petition said the matter was outside the panel’s terms of reference, which has to do with police brutality.