Human Rights Commission calls for petitions against SARS

 

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has called for submission of petitions and complaints of human rights violations against the defunct Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) or other units of the police to the Independent Investigations Panel on human rights violations against the Police.

In a statement signed by the Assistant Director, Public Affairs of the Commission, Fatimah Agwai Mohammed the Executive Secretary of the commission, Tony Ojukwu, made this call in Abuja when the Commission inaugurated an 11-member panel headed by a former Supreme Court Justice, Justice Sulieman Galadima.

He said that it was expected that anyone who was a victim of SARS brutality or other related assaults take advantage of the call for petitions and the public hearing sitting soon, to seek redress.

Ojukwu said that the independent investigative panel was very imperative because it will address various reports of alleged extra-judicial killings, illegal arrests, torture, disappearances, extortions, confiscation of property, violations of dignity and privacy amongst others which have received national and global attentions.

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He urged members of the public to visit the NHRC website, www.nhrc.gov.ng to check details of the call for memoranda entitled, “Independent Investigative Panel on Human Rights Violations by Defunct Special Anti-Robbery  Squad (SARS) and other Units of the Nigerian Police Force 2020 Call for Petition/Notice of Public Hearing”.

Date of submission is November 2, 2020, the statement stated.