The directives were contained in the reviewed operations and investigations guidelines to all commands of the agency across the country. He said the order had become imperative in view of the current democratic dispensation in the country and the need to adhere strictly to constitutional provisions regarding arrest and detention of suspects.
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The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court slated the date to deliver judgment in the fundamental rights enforcement suit Dasuki filed against the Federal Government over his continued detention after being granted bail by different courts since 2015.
Yet policemen in Anambra State, in a flagrant disregard of the IGP’s order, have continued to detain an hotelier in police cell for over 14 weeks
HURIWA further accused the Abuja-based Naval-run environmental task force of constituting themselves into ‘fearsome terror gang’ who go about harassing innocent teenage girls on major streets of Abuja in broad daylight in the guise of arresting ladies of easy virtues
A middle aged man, Adebayo Gbeminiyi Orelaja, has sued the National Security and Civil Defence Corps for wrongfully detaining him over a crime he claimed he never committed