Ivan Paneff, Vice President of ASF France, otherwise known as lawyers without border, made the remarks in Abuja during a press briefing to mark the end of SAFE Project intervention it launched since 2019.
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News Agency of Nigeria reports that the sitting was characterised by heated arguments as lawyers involved in the litigation insisted that the panel, headed by retired Justice Celestina Ogisi, must also hear their cases pending in courts.
Giving evidence before the panel constituted by the National Human Rights Commission, Igwetu said that her late sister, Linda Igwetu, was out celebrating with friends, her completion of the NYSC scheme when killed on July 3, 2018.
In a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria, by the secretary of the panel, Hajara Jibrin Abubakar, the public is advised to submit the petition/memoranda on or before 25 November, 2020, in 15 hard copies.
Umahi gave the warning while inaugurating the eight-member judicial panel of inquiry into cases of police brutality, human rights violations and related cases of extra-judicial killings.
The House of Representatives Committee on Public Petition has expressed concern about the refusal of the Nigerian Customs Service to appear and respond to a petition on extra judicial killings by its men.
Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara on Wednesday said the state government would hold traditional rulers responsible for any extra judicial killing committed by local vigilantes in their domain.
A retired Commissioner of Police, Lawrence Alobi, has attributed frequent misuse of firearms by policemen, including extra-judicial killings, to frustration and hostile work environment.
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has decried the incessant killing of innocent persons in Lagos state by policemen, saying it is unacceptable.
Williams Adebisi, the Metropolitan Grand Knight of the Order of the Knights of St Mulumba, has decried the high rate of extra-judicial killings in Nigeria, saying that life is sacrosanct and should not be toyed with.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday apologised to former US President Barack Obama for calling him a “son of a whore” in 2016.
Prof. Bem Angwe, the Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission, has expressed the commission’s readiness to work on the report of alleged extra-judicial killings levelled against Nigeria by Amnesty International.
He said: “It is mandatory for the police to uphold that the law prohibits officers and men to assault suspects, to extract confessional statements or killing of an armed robber who pleaded guilty