The Independent Investigative Panel on Human Rights Violations by the defunct SARS and other units of the Nigerian Police on Monday expressed disappointment on the police for abdicating from their responsibility of assisting the panel to arrive at the justice of a case of alleged extra-judicial killing of one Godwin Onomrerhino by the police.
The panel made this disclosure when counseling the police, Malik Taiwo informed the panel that three policemen whom it had on two different occasions ordered their appearance are still absent when the matter was called up.
Garba Tetengi, a member of the 11-Member panel chaired by Justice Suleiman Galadima Rtd, clearly stated that the panel is disappointed with the attitude of the Nigeria Police in respect of the instant case.
The panel, therefore, ordered the arrest of Sergeant Musa Sunday, Lucky Kehinde, and Lucky Okuku who the police had earlier testified were sitting in the same vehicle the day the victim allegedly jumped off a moving van and got injured in the process.
The panel in the same vein ordered the Inspector General of Police, Adamu Mohammed to ensure the arrest and production of the affected officers before the panel on the next adjourned date being 14th of April, 2021.
CSP Isah Hassan and Inspector Tambari Kambari while testifying before the panel the same day gave contradictory accounts of the death of Ovoke, who they alleged was an armed robber.
Isah said the deceased was arrested on June 29, 2019, by the Igun Vigilante for an armed robbery incident on the Eku-Igun highway in Delta State on June 28, 2019.
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The former Abraka DPO said the victim took policemen to where his gang kept the operational weapons they used in the robbery operation, adding that as they were returning to the station the deceased jumped from the police vehicle while in motion and got injured.
(Editor: Abaje Usekwe)
