Revealed: How The Police Frame, Arrest & Kill Innocent People

 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.