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Punch repots that Office of the Attorney General of the Federation says there’s no sufficient evidence to prosecute operatives of the recently-disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad indicted in last year’s report of a Presidential Investigative Panel.
This is contained in a report of the committee set up by Abubakar Malami (SAN), the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation to review the individual cases recommended for prosecution by the special presidential panel.
As stated from the report, the Office of the AGF has called on the Inspector-General of Police, Adamu Mohammed to set up “a special investigation team” to conduct a “thorough investigation” into the cases.
Remember the Presidential Panel led by the Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission, had in a report which contained its recommendation after probing of 2018 and 2019 complaints of brutal activities of SARS operatives, indicted a total of 35 police operatives in 12 states and the Federal Capital Territory for various rights violations including, extrajudicial killing, death in police custody, unlawful arrest, biased investigation, unlawful intimidation, harassment, criminal assault, torture, cruelty, inhuman and degrading treatment, threat to life, extortion and confiscation of property, among others.
The report which recommended the prosecution of 33 operatives of the disbanded unit, also recommended that 57 victims be paid about N249m as compensation. The police was also directed to issue an apology to 35 people.
