NHRC to set up new test board on SARS
The National Human Rights Commission said on Tuesday that it was going to set up an Independent Investigation Panel to investigate basic liberties infringement by the outdated Special Anti-Robbery Squad and different sections of the Nigeria Police Force.
An announcement by the commission’s Assistant Director Public Affairs, Fatimah Mohammed, said the proposed IIP would be set up “inside the following multi week”.
The NHRC’s arrangement to set up the new board came around 16 months after an official board headed by the Executive Secretary of the commission, Mr Tony Ojukwu, presented its report suggesting among others, the prohibition of SARS to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) in March a year ago.
No move was made to execute the report of the board until fights broke out in various pieces of the nation, requesting the disbandment of SARS and a conclusion to police severity in the nation.
The NHRC’s arrangement to set up a new Independent board came as the counter SARS fights picked up energy and spread to different pieces of the nation regardless of the declaration of disbandment of the police unit by the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu.
The commission said on Tuesday that the choice to set up the IIP was taken on October 12, 2020 at a Multi-Stakeholders’ Forum in Abuja composed by the Executive Secretary of the NHRC, Tony Ojukwu, and the Inspector General of Police as a development to the ongoing SARS disbandment.
The announcement included, that the Executive Secretary of the commission would make “an open call for memoranda from individuals from the public whose rights have been disregarded by the outdated SARS and different portions of the police” inside seven days.
It expressed that the multi-partner discussion where the choice to set up the IIP was taken “suggests the mental assessment, preparing and retraining of disbanded SARS authorities preceding re-arrangement.”
Is included, “There was additionally an arrangement by the discussion that the Inspector General of Police should arrange all State Police Commands to end the utilization of power against nonconformists and to deliver captured dissenters and residents unequivocally.
“The Forum, as per him, set out to set up the accompanying Technical Committees, to be upheld by the NHRC and other Civil Society Organizations to plan the guide and a work plan for the execution of the White Paper of the Presidential Panel on the Reform of SARS.”
It likewise noticed that the discussion “attested that the five-point requests of the dissidents and the ENDSARS development which disturbs on offering equity to casualties of SARS ruthlessness and improved working conditions for police faculty are certified concerns and will be tended to by the Government.”
