Fresh Panel: Buhari gives 3-month deadline for establishment of state, local police
Buhari orders fresh panel; gives 3-month deadline President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, ordered that a three-man panel be set up to produce a white paper, in three months, on the recommendations of the Presidential Panel on the Reform of Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, for establishment of state and local government police.
President Muhammadu Buhari with Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Adamu; Panel Chairman, Tony Ojukwu; members, D.J. Shagba and Tijani Mohammed as he receives Report of the Presidential Panel on Reform of the Special Anti Robbery Squad SARS (2018) in State House, Abuja, yesterday. State House photo.
The statement read: “President Muhammadu Buhari Monday (yesterday) received a report on the reform of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS. “The President requested that the report be studied and a white paper produced within three months. President Buhari’s specific directive is that a three-man panel be set up to produce the white paper.
“The report of the white paper committee will form the basis of the decisions of the government on the many recommendations, including the setting up of state and local government police, made by the Ojukwu panel.
“Until a white paper is produced, it will be premature and pre-emptive to suggest that the recommendations contained in the report have been approved by the President in part or whole.”
Panel recommends dismissal of 37 SARS operatives
Meanwhile, the Presidential panel had also recommended dismissal of 37 SARS operatives, prosecution of 24 police officers, and renaming of SARS as Anti-Robbery Squad, ARS It also recommended that the Inspector-General of Police be directed to unravel the identity of 22 police officers indicted for violation of fundamental rights of some Nigerians as well as payment of compensation to 45 complainants, apologies to five others and directive that the Nigeria Police obey court orders in five matters as well as the arrest and prosecution of two retired senior police officers for extra-judicial killing of a citizen and the takeover of the property of a suspect respectively.
The Special panel constituted by the President was to, among others, investigate allegations of human rights violations and abuse of office against the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, and the Nigeria Police Force.
The Panel, under the chairmanship of the Executive Secretary, National Human Rights Commission and Chairman Presidential Panel on SARS Reform, Anthony Ojukwu, was also mandated to recommend the reform or restructuring, among other appropriate solutions, to improve public safety and security in the country.
Submitting its recommendations to President Buhari at the Presidential villa, Abuja, Ojukwu stated that the panel was constituted on August 14, 2018, following the President’s directive which ordered the NHRC to constitute a special panel of inquiry into various allegations of human rights violations and abuse of office by police officers operating under the aegis of SARS and come up with recommendations on how the dangers posed to the public by the group could be addressed.
He disclosed that the panel received 113 complaints on alleged human rights’ violations from different parts of the country, 22 memoranda on the reform and re-organisation of SARS as well as the entire Nigeria Police.
President Muhammadu Buhari with Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Adamu; Panel Chairman, Tony Ojukwu; members, D.J. Shagba and Tijani Mohammed as he receives Report of the Presidential Panel on Reform of the Special Anti Robbery Squad SARS (2018) in State House, Abuja, yesterday. State House photo. The statement read: “President Muhammadu Buhari Monday (yesterday) received a report on the reform of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS. “The President requested that the report be studied and a white paper produced within three months. President Buhari’s specific directive is that a three-man panel be set up to produce the white paper.
“The report of the white paper committee will form the basis of the decisions of the government on the many recommendations, including the setting up of state and local government police, made by the Ojukwu panel.
“Until a white paper is produced, it will be premature and pre-emptive to suggest that the recommendations contained in the report have been approved by the President in part or whole.”
Panel recommends dismissal of 37 SARS operatives
Meanwhile, the Presidential panel had also recommended dismissal of 37 SARS operatives, prosecution of 24 police officers, and renaming of SARS as Anti-Robbery Squad, ARS It also recommended that the Inspector-General of Police be directed to unravel the identity of 22 police officers indicted for violation of fundamental rights of some Nigerians as well as payment of compensation to 45 complainants, apologies to five others and directive that the Nigeria Police obey court orders in five matters as well as the arrest and prosecution of two retired senior police officers for extra-judicial killing of a citizen and the takeover of the property of a suspect respectively.
The Special panel constituted by the President was to, among others, investigate allegations of human rights violations and abuse of office against the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, and the Nigeria Police Force.
The Panel, under the chairmanship of the Executive Secretary, National Human Rights Commission and Chairman Presidential Panel on SARS Reform, Anthony Ojukwu, was also mandated to recommend the reform or restructuring, among other appropriate solutions, to improve public safety and security in the country.
Submitting its recommendations to President Buhari at the Presidential villa, Abuja, Ojukwu stated that the panel was constituted on August 14, 2018, following the President’s directive which ordered the NHRC to constitute a special panel of inquiry into various allegations of human rights violations and abuse of office by police officers operating under the aegis of SARS and come up with recommendations on how the dangers posed to the public by the group could be addressed.
He disclosed that the panel received 113 complaints on alleged human rights’ violations from different parts of the country, 22 memoranda on the reform and re-organisation of SARS as well as the entire Nigeria Police.
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