The Network on Police Reform in Nigeria (NOPRIN) has given shocking
details of how the special anti-robbery squad (SARS) of the Nigeria Police
allegedly arrest, frame, torture and extra-judiciously execute their victims.
Addressing the media in Lagos
yesterday, national co-ordinator of the Network, Comrade Okechukwu Nwanguna
chronicled alleged cases of police impunity and abuse of human rights across
the country.
Nwanguna said most cases of arrest by
police are not effectively investigated to ensure accountability and redress,
and that justice is not given to the victims.
He recalled several human right
abuses reported by local and international human rights advocacy groups, indicting
Nigerian police for gross abuse, torture and extra-judicial killings.
Nwanguna said that it was worrisome
that perpetrators of the human right violations were hardly brought to account,
adding that the culture of impunity in the system now protects police officers
involved in police brutality.
According to the co-ordinator, many
people disappear from police custody while few police officers are held
accountable, leaving relatives of those killed or disappeared without justice.
Giving graphic details of NOPRIN
findings, Nwanguna said that in early 2011, the Bayelsa State government set up
‘Operation Fanou Tangbe’ which means ‘Kill and Throw Away’ in local language,
to fight crime. Many officers linked to the operation reportedly unlawfully
killed, tortured, arbitrarily arrested and detained people, he claimed.
Nwanguna further stated that NOPRIN
investigations revealed how Mr. Bonaventure Mokwe and others were in Onitsha,
Anambra state were arrested over allegations that later turned out to be
spurious and framed.
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