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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.
TODAY
February 2, 2021
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has disbursed the sum of N3.6 billion to the six area councils and other stakeholders as their shares of statutory allocations for the month of December 2020.
The FCT Minister of State, Dr Ramatu Aliyu, who presided over the 149th Joint Area Councils Allocation Committee (JAAC), disclosed on Tuesday in FCTA disburses N3.6bn to area councils, stakeholders.
Aliyu described the December 2020 allocation as a great improvement of over N1 billion above the previous allocations to the councils.
She explained that out of the figure, the sum of N2,006,901,374.33 billion would go to the six area councils.
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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.
BILL DEDICATED TO NICOLE FOX SIGNED INTO LAW BY THE PRESIDENT
A bill aiming to tackle online bullying has been signed into law by the President.
The sharing of intimate images without consent is now illegal, and if someone is found guilty of the crime they will face an unlimited fine and/or up to seven years imprisonment.
The Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill- is widely known as Coco’s Law, after 21-year-old Nicole Fox, who died by suicide following a prolonged period of online abuse in 2018.
Her mother Jackie is a resident in County Wexford and campaigned for this new law.
Reforms in social media to tackle online harassment and abuse not taking place fast enough
Sean Dolan
Updated: 19 Dec 2020, 22:13
CYBER-bullying, online harassment and image-based sexual abuse will formally become offences in early February, following the passing of the Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill.
The long-awaited legislation, known as Coco’s Law in honour of teenage cyber-bullying victim Nicole Fox, a 21-year-old girl who took her own life after she was bullied on social media, passed all legislative stages on Friday and will now be sent to the president to be signed into law.
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Sean DonlonCredit: RollingNews.ie
The move has been welcomed by campaigners, but it’s described as just the first of many steps needed to adequately patrol the social media sphere.