Tag: SARS
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We were forced to implicate Saraki, suspected Offa robbers
Alhaji Kehinde Gobir and Alhaji Shuaib Jawando, petitioners at the Kwara State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Wednesday narrated how they were tortured and humiliated by men of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The petitioners who were suspects of the 2018 brutal Offa robbery accused SARS officers of high depth impunity and human rights…
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`My son was killed in my presence’, woman tells investigative panel
The National Human Rights Commission panel investigating allegations of human rights violations against the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) heard on Tuesday in Abuja how policemen in Rivers killed a young man in the presence of his mother. Petitioner Mrs Victoria Agori made the allegation while testifying before the panel on a case she filed…
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#EndSARS: Lagos Judicial panel delivers first judgment
The Lagos State judicial panel has laid bare its first case out of 210 petitions it has received since it began sitting in October. The panel chair, Justice Okuwobi led struck out Mr. Bonu Pascal’s petition against the Federal Special Anti-robbery Squad. In her Judgement, the retired Justice struck out the petition for abusing court…
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Widow of LASTMA officer killed by SARS seeks scholarship for children
Silifat Adeyemo, widow of Rotimi Adeyemo, an officer of Lagos State Traffic Management Authority allegedly killed by the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad, on Saturday pleaded for scholarship for her children. Silifat made the request to the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry for Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and Other Matters. The late…
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‘Policemen shot me, killed my girlfriend,’ man tells Lagos Judicial Panel
A man, Emmanuel Akomafuwe, has narrated how he and his girlfriend (Adaugo) were stopped by men of the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) around 7 pm on April 13, 2019. He narrated his ordeal when appearing before the Lagos State Judicial Panel on Police Brutality in Lekki on Saturday. Akomafuwe, who was the first petitioner…
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I have not seen my son since he was arrested in 2007- Mother tells Rivers panel
A distraught mother has narrated how her son was arrested by policemen when he went to watch football in his friend’s house in Ogbunabali area of Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State in 2007, but has not been seen since then. The woman, Mrs. Patience Mbang, who said the incident happened on September 20th,…
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“I am ashamed I don’t know my husband’s grave” – Widow tells SARS panel
Mrs Christisna Nnatuanya, widow of Linus Nnatuanya who allegedly died in the custody of disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), in Awkuzu, Anambra, says she is ashamed that she can’t show her seven children the grave of their father. Nnatuanya who testified at the Judicial Panel of Inquiry (JPI) on SARS activities in Awka on Tuesday…
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How SARS officer killed my brother while preparing for Canada
A certain bereaved woman, Mrs. Doris Ididia on 19th of November recounting tragic details of how an official of the now disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) supposedly killed her brother, Festus Idehen, who was due to travel to Canada. “My brother suffered a lot. From that Saturday to the day he died, he did not…
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Nigeria Police Force: Typical SARS operation as captured at Awkuzu in Anambra State – Godwin Etakibuebu
By Godwin Etakibuebu What you have chosen to read below is as horrifying as it is emotionally draining. Reading it could affect your mental stability and balancing. Except you are sure of your shock-absorbing capacity, don’t endeavour to read it, please – this is my way of advising readers’ discretion. In the other hand, reading…
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I was made a paraplegic by SARS officials, trader tells Lagos Judicial Panel
A trader, Mr Ndukwe Ekekwe has recounted to the Lagos State Judicial Panel Investigating cases of alleged police brutality, how he was made a paraplegic by officers of the disbanded Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that wheelchair bound Ekekwe told the nine-man panel on Tuesday that he was…