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NHRC awards N289.3m compensation to Police brutality victims

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The Independent Investigative Panel on Special Anti-Robbery Squad IIP-SARS through National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, today 14th Wednesday,2022 awarded a sum of N 287million compensation to 74 victims of police brutality.   The IIP-SARS was set up by the Federal Government in November 2020 following the “ENDSARS Protest” which was triggered by nationwide allegations of Police brutality.   The panel under the supervision of National Human Rights Commission NHRC conducted public hearing/investigation on violations of human rights by the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, and other police units. While speaking,…

IIP-SARS: You won’t be awarded compensation, Police Counsel tells Complainant

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A Police counsel,Mr. Malik Taiwo has stated before the Independent Investigation Panel on Human Rights Violations by the Defunct SARS and other units of the Nigerian police force that a complainant before the panel Mr. Emenike Umezuruike should not be awarded any compensation because he was not detained by the police and his evidence not convincing enough.   Taiwo while reading his written address said the testimony given by the complainant should be dismissed citing the fact that no independent witness has corroborated his testimony before the panel.   According…

IiP- SARS: Petitioner seeks N10m compensation against Police over arbitrary arrest, detention:

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A petitioner, Nnaemeka Orjiakor, on Wednesday pleaded with the Independent Investigative Panel on human rights violations by the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and other police units in Abuja, to order N10m compensation in his favour following his alleged arbitrary arrest, detention and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment by the police in 2019. Nnaemeka who sell provision in Wuse market stated that SARS officers led by one Mohammed Elbow Awal arrested him on the 8th February 2019 from his shop, handcuffed him, paraded him around Wuse market before bundling him…

EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLING/SEIZURE OF PROPERTIES: Transport Union begs IIP-SARS for N3 billion compensation against police

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A witness, Comrade Godwin Ikolo on Thursday pleaded with the Independent Investigation Panel on Human Rights Violations by the defunct SARS and other units of the Nigerian Police Force to order N3 billion compensation against the Police in favour of the National Commercial Tricycle and Motorcycle Owners and Riders Association (NCTMORA), Delta state chapter, following alleged brutality and seizures of over 150 tricycles and motorcycles belonging to the association. Testifying before the panel, the witness alleged that a task force comprising some Police Officers, Delta state Ministry of Transport and…

Senate summons NLNG over refusal to pay compensation to 73 communities ….. gives one-week ultimatum

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The Senate has given the management of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited a one-week ultimatum to appear before its committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions or face the consequences for failing to do so. The summons was issued on Wednesday by the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, when the chamber considered a report by the Ethics Committee on the refusal by NLNG to pay compensation for lands acquired from seventy-three (73) host communities in Rivers State. The report was against the backdrop of a petition received from one Chief…

IIP-SARS : NHRC awards N146m compensation to 27 Petitioners

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The National Human Rights Commission on Thursday awarded a total of One Hundred and Forty Six Million Naira(N 146,000,000) as compensations to 27 petitioners for the brutalities, harassment, extortion, extrajudicial killing of their loved ones perpetrated by the operatives of Nigerian Police as recommended by the Independent Investigative Panel on human rights violations by the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and other police units in Abuja. The Executive Secretary, Tony Ojukwu SAN, while handing out the cheques to the victims, disclosed that the Justice Suleiman Galadima retd led panel made…

Stop Forum Shopping before Panels, IIP-SARS Chairman warns petitioners, strikes out complaint …… as another petitioner insists on N5m compensation

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The Chairman of the IIP-SARS, Justice Suleiman Galadima (rtd) on Tuesday warned complainants before the panel to stop forum shopping in a bid to seek redress for human rights violations, saying that he will not hesitate to strike out any petition that is receiving attention before another authority. The jurist stated this while reacting to an information from Barrister I.W. Izon, who told the panel that his client, Igwe Michael Chidozie has the intention to withdraw his petition from the panel. The Chairman observed that a lot must have been…

IIP-SARS :Retired DSP demands compensation from Nigeria police

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A petitioner, Mr.Mamman Danladi, who is also a retired Deputy Superintendent of Police, was demanding compensation the Nigerian Police Force for allegedly torturing his nephew to death. Mr. Danladi told the Independent Investigative Panel on allegations of human rights violations by the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and other units of the Nigerian Police on Monday that his nephew was extra judicially killed over an alleged theft. In his testimony before the Justice Suleiman Galadima led panel, Danladi , a retired Deputy Superintendent of Police said that on 10th January,2007…