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The Rivers State Indigenous NGOs and Civil Society Network (RINGOCS), has decried the alleged brutality, incarceration and torture of one Mr Success Bassey by operatives of the Nigerian Police Force, Mini-Okoro Division, Port-Harcourt over allegations still unclear and under investigation. RINGOCS, in a release issued on Monday, signed by its chairman, Tombari Dumka-Kote, stated that the torture and incarceration of Bassey without trial for 14 days was in total breach of his fundamental human rights to fair hearing and was unacceptable.
Human rights organisations under the umbrella of the South-East/South-South Civil Society Forum have condemned in very strong terms the alleged torture and unlawful detention of a Rivers-based activist, Remi Izuchukwu. Izuchukwu was arrested on August 31, 2022, by soldiers of the Nigerian Army stationed at the Oyigbo-Express junction, on the Port Harcourt-Aba Expressway. The rights groups while demanding an in-depth investigation into the matter, called on the military authorities to caution Sergeant Peter Atuluku.
A human rights organisation, the Rivers State Response Team on Violence Against Women and Children, has called on the Nigeria Police Force to dismiss the Divisional Crime Officer at the Central Police Station, Port-Harcourt, Assistant Superintendent of Police, (ASP) Nnana Kalu and three other policemen. The group said the police officers should be dismissed for alleged illegal detention, torture and extortion of one Mr. Godwin Ganago, and his wife, Mrs. Ifeoma.