A federal Canadian court in Ottawa, Ontario, has affirmed the decision of the Immigration Department to deny a former operative of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigeria Police Force entry into the North American country. In what highlights how far the ripples of the atrocities of the defunct notorious police unit have travelled globally, the foreign government had rejected ...

Barr. Valentine Obienyem, Special Adviser to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Vice Presidential Candidate in the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has dismissed as fake news, reports that his principal has secured a court injunction to stop the probe of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). “Kindly disregard the news as fake. There is absolutely no truth in the news,” Obienyem ...

THE Judicial Commission of Inquiry into perceived police atrocities in Rivers state opened hearing of petitions on Wednesday with grieving Nyordeh Sylvanus alleging how stray bullets from men of disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) killed his 3-day old daughter August 14, 2014. In a separate case, a victim of alleged police brutality, Lucky Eze, also demanded a compensation of N20million ...

A school proprietor, Mr Emma Adimachukwu, on Tuesday told the Anambra State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality, Extral Judicial Killings and other Related Matters that the disbanded Special-Anti Robbery Squad charged him N400,000 to feed his son in their custody. Adimachukwu, an indigene of Oraifite in the Ekwusigo Local Government Area, but resident in Asaba, Delta State, said ...

Says only state government, not panel, can invite them  I lost two-month pregnancy to SARS’ torture, teacher tells panel The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry probing the shooting of #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki tollgate on the night of October 20, 2020 has summoned the army to appear before it. But the army has indicated that it will not ...

Raymond Ozoji, Awka Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra state has inaugurated a 32-man judicial panel of inquiry to look into the ongoing ENDSARS protest in the state. Obiano who performed the ceremony yesterday at the executive Chambers of the government house, hailed  the youths for conducting themselves properly in carrying out the ENDSARS protest. He said that inauguration of the ...

…calls for memoranda from victims of SARS  related abuses   The Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution sworn in yesterday by Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu has begun its public sitting in Lagos State.    In a statement signed today by the  Panel Secretary, Mr Babajide Boye, the sittings of the panel will hold in the open and as such, members of ...

Matthew Chattle/Barcroft Media via Getty Image Sakiru Adebayo, University of the Witwatersrand Two days after Nigeria celebrated its sixtieth year of independence, a video of a young man brazenly killed by a member of the notorious Special Anti-Robbery Squad or SARS caught the attention of netizens. The Twitter user who posted the viral video claimed the man’s body had been ...

Judicial panels of enquiry formed to investigate police brutality in all states, FCT Council directs special fund in all states to compensate victims of brutality Rising from its monthly meeting, the National Economic Council has directed the immediate establishment of State-based Judicial Panels of Inquiry across the country to receive and investigate complaints of Police brutality or related extra-judicial killings ...

Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong, on Thursday said Northern states were not against the scrapped Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Nigeria Police. Lalong, who is the Chairman of the Northern States Governors Forum, said the unit had been useful in the fight against insecurity in the Northern region. The governor made his position known in an interview with State House ...