05 Dec Police withdraws suit to stop #EndSARS investigating panels
Nigeria Police has applied to withdraw the suit it filed to stop various panels that were set-up to probe allegations of rights abuses and other acts of impunity by personnel disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).
In the notice of discontinuing the suit, police lawyer Festus Ibude asked the court to “Take notice that the plaintiff herein intends to and doth hereby wholly withdraws its suit against all the defendants.”
Inspector General of Police Adamu had yesterday vowed to probe the circumstantances surrounding the filling of the suit.
The judicial panels of inquiry were set up in most states of the country by governors to probe allegations of police brutality and human rights abuses of the disbanded SARS and other police tactical units.
The suit seeking a halt to the panel investigations was filed on November 9, 2020, by a lawyer to the Nigeria police O. M. Atoyebi (SAN).
The inauguration of the panels was directed by the National Executive Council (NEC), headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, during the heat of the EndSARS movement in October.
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