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IIP-SARS: POLICE OFFICER ALLEGES ASSAULT WHILE ON OPEN DEFECATION IN DURUMI, ABUJA TELLS PANEL HOW HE ESCAPED WITH BLEEDING HEAD INJURY

A Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Cornelius Agbo told the IIP-SARS how he escaped from the assault of six men who allegedly hit his head repeatedly while he defecated in a nearby bush at Durumi, Abuja sometimes in 2013.

PANEL COMMENDS AIG BALA CIROMA, URGES HIM TO DO MORE.

Chairman of the ongoing investigative panel on the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad and other units of the Nigerian Police Force sitting in Abuja, today commended the efforts of the AIG zonal headquarters, Wuse, Zone 7, Abuja.

2021 NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS AWARDS

List of Nominees (Federal MDAs, State Governments & CSOs) for the 2021 National Human Rights Awards (NHRA) has been released by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).

IT IS IN YOUR BEST INTEREST TO PRODUCE POLICE OFFICERS LINKED TO THE ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE OF TWO BROTHERS------ IIP-SARS TELLS POLICE

The IIP-SARS has again ordered the Nigerian Police Force to produce DCP Abba Kyari and four other Officers of the IGP-Intelligence Response Team (IRT) to appear before it on 25th November 2021 over the alleged unlawful detention of two brothers, Mr. Matthew Ella and Mr. Patrick Ella who were said to have been detained since December 2019.

INSPECTOR ATABO OKPANACHI CONFESSED TO IIP-SARS HOW HIS COLLEAGUE SHOT PETITIONER ON THE LEG

A police officer, Inspector Atabo Okpanachi who is allegedly linked to the case of alleged torture, cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment gave a detailed narration of how his colleague shot the petitioner, Tairu Garba on the leg on the 8th of July, 2020 in Ankpa, Kogi State.