Family members told the #EndSARS panel in Abuja that the alleged victims were arrested in 2019 by the operatives of the IGP-IRT which was then being led by Mr Kyari.
#EndSARS: Panel orders police to produce missing suspect Feb 24
Victim’s family tells #EndSARS panel that he has not been seen since the police arrested him in May 2018.
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The Abuja-based Independent Investigative Panel on cases of rights violations by the police, on Monday, ordered police authorities to produce Morris Ashwe, a victim of alleged ”enforced disappearance.”
Mr Ashwe has not been seen since his arrest by the police in May 2018, his family alleged in their petition to the panel.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the panel headed by a retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Suleiman Galadima, ordered the police authorities to produce the victim unfailingly on February 24.
NHRC panel orders police to produce victim on February 24 NHRC panel orders police to produce victim on February 24
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The independent investigative panel on the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and other units of the Nigeria Police set up by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) today ordered the police to produce one Morris Ashwe, a victim of alleged enforced disappearance before it on February 24.
A brother to Ashwe, Raphael Ushahemba Ashwe, had petitioned the panel, alleging Morris’ enforced disappearance against the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT), Benue State and the IGP.
The petitioner told the panel that his brother was arrested by the IRT in Makurdi on May 1, 2018, adding that the family initially had access to his brother while he was being detained in the Benue State capital.