The Doctor introduced himself as Michael Thompson Williams and while speaking with journalists after his arrest, alleged that most Nigerian banks were unsafe and could be easily hacked.
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Two suspects: Raphael Tersoo Toona and Moses Mfe, had through their Counsel, N.T. Utsaha, petitioned the panel, alleging arbitrary arrest and detention as well as cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment
The CMD was joined as a party in the petition filed by a lady, Chinenye Igwetu, on the alleged extra-judicial killing of her younger sister, Linda Igwetu.
The panel, investigating the allegations of human rights violations against the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Abuja, had on November 16, 2020 ordered the police to appear before it with the said title documents.
The Force Public Relations Officer, Deputy Commissioner of Police Frank Mba, confirmed the development in a statement on Thursday
Petitioner Victoria Agori made the allegation while testifying before the panel on a case she filed asking for the prosecution of the police officers that killed her son, Daniel Agori and the release of his body for burial.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that while being led in evidence by her counsel, Hakeem Fadun, she told the panel that her left leg was hit by the stray bullet on June 6, 2018, at a market near her home in Ijesha, Lagos.
The distraught father spokes at the commencement of hearing of the Rivers State Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Police Brutality in Port Harcourt on Wednesday.
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.
Nnatuanya who testified at the Judicial Panel of Inquiry on SARS activities in Awka on Tuesday said her husband was arrested at Ogbaru area of Anambra in January 2007 without warrant.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the trader presented the photograph of one Haruna Hamza, while being cross-examined at the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry for Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and Other Matters.
The panel gave the order at its hearing in Abuja on Thursday.
Ajibo told the (Retired) Justice Suleiman Galadima-led panel that her daughter was hit by stray bullet on Wednesday, November 27, 2019 at Wuse 2 in Abuja on her way back from school.
The woman, who did not mention her name, wept openly when the Chairman of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry for Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and Other Matters, retired Justice Doris Okuwobi, adjourned the case.
The National Human Rights Commission ‘s independent investigative panel is investigating human rights violations by the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad.
The setting up of the portal followed the recent protest by youths calling for the scrapping of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad unit of the Nigeria Police Force as a result of misconduct and harassment by its personnel.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the 11-man panel is chaired by Justice Bolajoko Adeniji, a former Chief Judge of Oyo State.
The Secretary of the Panel, Kemi Bello, said this in a statement on Monday.
The Executive Secretary of the commission, Tony Ojukwu, who made this known at the inaugural sitting of the Independent Investigative Panel on Human Rights Violations , said that the petitions were received from the six geo-political zones and the FCT.
While the injured and those who have lost their loved ones and private properties count their losses, bear and nurse the immeasurable pain and trauma, the government and the citizenry are yet to come to terms with the level of destruction and sacrilege committed in the guise of a supposed peaceful protest.