The Convener of the coalition, Aminu Saleh, made the call at a news briefing on Tuesday in Abuja.
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He wished he had the power to curtail the killings, if not out rightly stop it. Visibly vexed, he said: “The police will confiscate the victim’s property and share the property among themselves. I’ve been arrested several times and I have received threatening messages, but whom do I run to for safety? The job even becomes dangerous for me and my family members. We discovered that police frame victims for armed robbery because they want to cover up. Our government is not checking the excesses of the police. Nobody challenges the police’s impunity.
Why do men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad kill suspects in their custody? That is the big question that is left hanging in the air as more families recount their ordeal in the hands of policemen, over family members, who have vanished from the surface of the earth. JULIANA FRANCIS continues the story from last week.
The governor, speaking during the inauguration of the panel headed by retired Justice Solomon Olugbemi, reminded the members of the importance of the assignment to the continued peace and security of the state and the nation at large.
President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Wudil, Kano State warned the police to desist from acts which tend to bring the community in conflict with them.
Amnesty International believes Rivers State is representative of other Nigerian states where violent deaths at the hands of the police are not investigated adequately