Ifeanyi Agu, Ebuka Aniegu’s lawyer, testified before the Independent Investigative Panel on Human Rights Violations by the Defunct SARS and Other Units of the Nigerian Police Force in Abuja on Thursday that his client was extrajudicially slain by operatives after his detention in 2019.
He accuses the police of unlawfully arresting, detaining, and kidnapping Ebuka Aniegu.
In a statement, the National Human Rights Commission stated that one “ASP Paul Odey, a member of Chinedu Okonwo’s IGP Intelligence Response team had in his submission before the panel said that sometime in May 2019 ,there was an arrest made at the Trade-More Police station Lugbe, Abuja bothering on armed robbery and rape, which was subsequently reported to IRT.”
Odey had stated in his testimony that one “Otu” was arrested in the raid and was the one who later named Aniegu and others as accomplices in the crime.
Agu said before the tribunal that the police officers who apprehended Aniegu were paid to assassinate him.
“Certain persons who would not want their names to be mentioned disclosed that the Police were bribed to extra-judicially kill Ebuka Aniegu whom they arrested and detained in 2019 over allegations of armed robbery and rape,” he said as stated by the NHRC.
SP Okonkwo, according to Agu, was aware of what happened because he was the one in charge of the case at the time before handing over his client’s file to DSP John Onyema, who is now deceased.
He claimed that after interrogation, the police should have charged his client in court.
The panel, for their part, “adjourned the petition for report”.
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