[responsivevoice] A 75-year-old pensioner, Paul Nyeche Amadi, has demanded that the police authorities pay him N20milion as compensation for the torture and trauma he suffered in the hands of disbanded SARS operatives. Amadi told the Rivers State Judicial Commission of Inquiry on Police Brutality that he was forced to relocate to his maternal home when…
Rivers #EndSARS Panel Throws Out Petition against IPOB
[responsivevoice] The Rivers State Judicial Commission of Inquiry on Police Brutality on Thursday dismissed a petition filed by Oyigbo Indigenous Lawyers Association (OILA) seeking to ban activities of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in Oyigbo Local Government Area. In dismissing the petition, Chairman of the Panel, Hon. Justice Chukwunenye Uriri (Rtd), said the…
#EndSARS Protest: Obaseki Accuses Political Opponents of Masterminding Destruction of Security Infrastructure
…Calls for Probe by FG. Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki says the government has evidence linking political opponents to attacks on security infrastructure in the state. He therefore called on the federal government to probe the hijack of the #EndSARS protest in the state which led to the attack on correctional centres and attendant jail…
Hoodlums Loot Police Armoury in Edo, Allegedly Kill Two Policemen
Policemen injured, not dead – PPRO The looting of police armouries which started about three weeks back when hoodlums hijacked the hitherto peaceful #EndSARS protest continued in Edo State on Monday night as some unknown gun men attacked a police station at Igueben, and carted away unspecified number of arms and ammunition. Controversy however trails…
#EndSARS, police charge 21 IPOB members for murder, arson
21 persons arrested by Rivers State Police command in connection to the killing of three policemen and burning down of police stations in Oyigbo Local Government Area on the 21 of October have been charged for murder and arson before a magistrate court in Port Harcourt. Some of the suspects, who the police said were…