Inquiry on Police Brutality, Justice Suleiman Galadima speaks
during a sitting in Abuja on November 30, 2020.
The independent investigative panel on human rights
violations by the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad sitting in
Abuja has ordered the police to pay the sum of two million naira
judgment debt to Dr. Martins Iwuanyanwu for violating his right to
access to justice.
At the resumed sitting of the panel on Monday, Justice Suleiman
Galadima ordered the police to pay the money immediately based on
the judgment of a High Court delivered on July 10, 2020 which the
police are yet to appeal against.
The complainant claimed he was denied access to justice and
effective remedy by the defunct sars and he obtained a judgment of
the court which the police is yet to obey.
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“The complainant deserves immediate payment. It is therefore
ordered that he should be settled immediately without further
delay,” Justice Galadima ruled.
The panel heard the testimony of another, Paul Offiong who
accused SARS of killing his younger brother, Emmanuel Ita in
Calabar, Cross River State in 2017.
During the cross-examination, an Assistant Commissioner of
Police, Kabiru Salisu, flared up, threatening to destroy the
photographer’s camera.
The panel’s sitting would continue it’s sitting on Tuesday as
more petitioners wait to present their petitions against SARS.
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