#EndSARS Judicial Panel: Rivers Governor Receives Report, Questions Nigerian Govt s Commitment To Implement Recommendations
Governor Wike said the state government had done its bit by setting up the commission and would also produce the White Paper at the next meeting of the State Executive Council.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Feb 19, 2021
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has received the report from the Judicial Commission of Inquiry that investigated cases of human rights abuses, police brutality, and extrajudicial killings by the disbanded notorious police unit known as the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in the state.
The report was submitted to him by the chairman of the commission, Justice Chukwunenye Uriri (rtd), at Government House, Port Harcourt on Friday.
How soldiers chasing #EndSARS protesters killed final-year Abia poly student Brother
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how her younger sister, Queen Nwauzuo, a final-year student of the Abia State Polytechnic, was allegedly killed last October by security men sent after #EndSARS protesters in Oyigbo, Rivers State
What is your name and what do you do?
My name is Nnamdi Nwanzuo. I am a native of Asa in the Ukwa West Local Government Area of Abia State. I am a businessman based in Lagos State.
You petitioned the Rivers State Judicial Panel of Inquiry over the killing of your younger sister. Can you tell us about it?
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Mr Anitie Joseph is a petitioner before the Rivers State Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Police Brutality and Related Offences sitting in Port Harcourt. He tells DENNIS NAKU how his elder brother was allegedly killed by a policeman in 2016
Tell us your name and what you do for a living?
My name is Anietie Joseph. I am an engineer.
You petitioned the Rivers State Judicial Panel over the alleged killing of your brother by the police. When and how did your brother die?
A police officer killed my elder brother, James Okon, on November 21, 2016, and all efforts to investigate the case proved abortive. So, I was happy when the setting up of this commission was announced and I sent in my petition.
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The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry probing allegations of rights abuses against the police, on Friday, directed Mrs Olamide Erinfolami, the widow of Inspector Ayodeji Erinfolami, who was killed during the
#EndSARS protest, to visit the pathologist for a post-mortem evaluation on her husband’s remains.
Ayodeji was shot on the stomach on October 12, 2020, in the Surulere area of Lagos during the
#EndSARS protest and the widow had alleged that her husband was shot by one of his fellow policemen.
At the last sitting of the panel, the widow’s counsel, Mr Gbemiga Ogunleye, had prayed the panel to order the police to immediately conduct an autopsy and release the remains of the deceased for burial so that the family could get a closure while the counsel for the police, Cyril Ejiofor, told the panel the police would call at least one witness.
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THE family of one Godstime Akugbo, who allegedly died in the custody of the Anti-Cultism Unit of the Rivers State Police Command in 2007, has called on the Rivers State Judicial Panel on Police Brutality and related crimes to prevail on the police to release their son’s corpse for a befitting burial.
A petitioner and elder brother of the deceased, Michael Akugbo, stated this when he appeared at the panel’s sitting on Tuesday, even as he demanded the sum of N50m as compensation.
Michael said his younger brother was arrested on the allegations that he was in possession of Indian hemp, saying he died in police detention few days after his arrest due to pains from torture.