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The court had on December 15, 2014 in suit number FHC/IB/CS/54/2014, granted an order of Mandamus, compelling the IGP to investigate alleged criminal activities levelled against Oba Adeyemi and contained in a petition to his office, dated March 18, 2014 and signed by Chiefs Jacob O. Oluokun and Sulaiman Ajiboye Ishola

The letter of complaint signed by the Rivers State Governor and Director General of the APCPCO, Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, will on March 9 be dispatched to the International Criminal Court, the Inspector General of Police and the National Human Rights Commission, among others

While engaging in regional advocacy activities in the South Eastern States not too long ago, two major human rights issues confronted us and these are the sudden unprecedented re-emergence of illegal police check-points and the rapidly declining and shrinking democratic space in the run up to next year’s elections which is only few months away.

While urging the Zonal AIGs and the Command CPs to evolve new intelligence gathering and crime-fighting techniques and methodologies customized to suit their respective local challenges, Abubakar charged the senior officers to improve on their surveillance network and high police visibility across the country