The Bayelsa Judicial Panel of Inquiry, hearing cases of alleged brutalities by security men in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State Capital has directed the Nigerian Army to unconditionally release one Prince Fubara and pay him 10 Million Naira compensation for his illegal detention since 2018.
The panel also affirmed the ruling of a Yenagoa Federal High Court which ordered the Nigeria Police to pay the sum of One Hundred Million Naira compensation for the murder of one Tochukwu Uzuokwu by six officers of the now disbanded, state-managed security outfit ‘ Operation Famutamgbe’.
The tragic manner, a young manTochukwu Uzuokwu died in 2011 are some of the pathetic stories heard at the Judicial Panel inquiry set up by the Bayelsa State Government.
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Tochukwu, whose family will be getting a 100million Naira in compensation, drowned when 6 policemen ordered him at gunpoint to jump into the River.
He had earlier being nabbed for smoking marijuana.
During the hearing, the Nigerian Army was ordered to, without condition, release and pay 10 million Naira for illegally detaining Fubara Prince after he was whisked away from a football game three years ago
The panel also heard the matter involving the shooting of a final year student, Tarila Adams by SARS in Yenagoa.
The Judicial Panel in the sitting again ordered the Nigeria Police to pay 16 million Naira to the family of a man who died months after being knocked down by a police team driving opposite traffic.
(Editor: Abaje Usekwe)
