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Civil society groups, COMPPART Foundation for Justice and Peace Building and Network on Police Reforms in Nigeria (NOPRIN), have urged the Akwa Ibom State Government to provide evidence of the Close Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras it installed in border communities of the state.
Executive Director of COMPART, Saviour Akpan, who spoke with journalists in Uyo, yesterday, maintained that the cameras would have assisted in repelling the frequent attacks on security formations in the state.
National Chairman of NOPRIN, Emmanuel Ikule, also blamed the frequent attacks on stations and murder of police officers across the state on poor management of security information members of the public make available to the police.
Lagos Judicial Panel on SARS brutality
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Wed Mar 03 2021
Apart from the non-compliance by security personnel to honour summons, many complainants also refused to appear before the judicial panels of inquiry of the #EndSARS set up in the wake of the protests against Police brutality.
This is contained in a report titled “CSO Observatory on Police Reform Decries Non-Compliance of Security Officials to Summons Issued by the Judicial Panels of Inquiry” and jointly signed by the Executive Director, CLEEN Foundation, Dr. Benson Olugbuo, and National Coordinator, Network on Police Reform in Nigeria (NOPRIN) Foundation, Emmanuel Ikule on Friday in Abuja.
#ENDSARS: Judicial panels receive over 2500 petitions against police brutality in Nigeria
29 states and the FCT have set up judicial panels to hear allegations of police brutality 4 min read
The judicial panels set up across Nigeria to investigate the excesses of the Nigerian police have received over 2,500 petitions, a new report has found.
State governments set up the panels following the #ENDSARS protests by youth that rocked Nigeria in October.
Most of the petitions allege human rights violations such as extra-judicial killings, torture, extortion, harassment, sexual and gender-based violence, indiscriminate arrests, illegal detention, illegal arrests and abuse of power by personnel of the Nigerian police and other security agencies.
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