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WE DON’T HAVE RECORDS OF ERIC EZEALA AS A DETAINEE---POLICE TELLS IIP-SARS

• NO! YOU HAVE EARLIER PARADED HIM AS A SUSPECT---- COMPLAINANT’s COUNSEL

The Nigerian police on Thursday told the Independent Investigative Panel on human rights violations by the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and other police units in Abuja, that Eric Ezela, who was arrested by the officers of the Intelligence Response Team in 2017, is not in their custody and there is no record of his arrest, detention and custody with the police.

ABUJA IIP-SARS: PANEL COMMENDS NHRC MEDIA TEAM AND THE PRESS.

Chairman of the Independent Investigative Panel on human rights violations by defunct SARS, Justice Suleiman Galadima rtd, on Wednesday commended the NHRC media team and members of the press.

Galadima noted with appreciation the high level professionalism exhibited by the Commission's media team and the external press covering the activities of the panel.

ELIJA TANKO: REPEATED DNA RESULT OUT, AGAIN ESTHER TANKO NOT BIOLOGICAL MOTHER

The Independent Investigative Panel on human rights violations by the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and other police units in Abuja, on Wednesday was informed by a clinical pathologist that the 16 markers used in analysing DNA samples for contending paternal or maternal issues reveals that Esther Tanko is not the biological mother to Elijah .

4M MORTUARY BILL LEFT CORPSE OF POLICE GUNSHOT VICTIM STRANDED IN THE MORGUE

As Police justifies the shooting late Nyamkwange

Complainant’s Counsel, I.G. Mdatsadue in a petition of alleged extra-judicial killing of Simon Aondofa Nyamkwange by the Police on Wednesday informed the Independent Investigation Panel on Human Rights Violations by defunct SARS and other unit of the Nigerian Police that the corpse of the deceased is stranded at the Mortuary of General Hospital Wuse, Abuja.

ALLEGATIONS AGAINST POLICE WEIGHTY, WE CAN’T MOVE ON JUSTICE GALADIMA TELLS POLICE

The chairman of the Independent Investigative Panel on Human Rights violation by the Defunct SARS and other Units of the police force, Justice Sulieman Galadima (rtd) has said that the panel will not move on from the alleged extra judicial killing of one Yau Mai Atampa.