The independent panel investigating violations of rights by defunct SARS and other police units set up by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), on Monday, directed the police to produce proceedings of the hearing of House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions showing that a petitioner took the same petition before it to the National Assembly.
The panel directed the police to produce at its next sitting on the petition certified true copies of proceedings from the House Committee in the case filed by DSP Mamman Danladi (retd), alleging the extrajudicial killing of his nephew, one Kennedy Yusuf.
Danladi had joined the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Commissioner of Police, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Jikwoyi Police Station, Karu division and the Inspector General of Police.
The chairman of the 11-man panel chairman, Justice Suleiman Galadima (retd), gave the directive following the disclosure by the lead counsel for the police, James Idachaba, that the petitioner had gone to file the same matter before the House of Representatives committee.
According to Idachaba, the Reps committee had dismissed Danladi’s petition based on the fact that the post mortem examination conducted on the remains of the deceased revealed that he died from natural cause.
“He (Danladi) has been moving from one place to another. The matter was dismissed because the post mortem presented by an independent pathologist disclosed that the deceased died from natural cause,” Idachaba told the panel.
The police counsel, however, tendered some documents to show that the police had made efforts to comply with the panel’s earlier directive to produce the record of proceedings of the House committee.
Responding to this, the petitioner, however, told the panel that the matter had not been settled because he told the Reps committee that the matter was before the NHRC panel.
Danladi told the panel that it was a National Assembly member he petitioned who took the petition before the House of Representatives committee.
While adjourning the further hearing of the petition to November 29, 2021, Justice Galadima (retd) directed the police legal team to produce the records of proceeding on the matter as ordered by the panel on November 5, 2021.
Danladi had on February 15, 2021, while testifying before the panel sought compensation for his family over the alleged extrajudicial killing of his nephew, adding that though the family was handicapped, it wanted perpetrators of his nephew’s murder to be brought to justice.
He informed that the late Yusuf was arrested on January 10, 2007, by policemen from the Jikwoyi police station in Abuja on the allegation of stealing two bags of cement and severely beaten during interrogation till the deceased lost consciousness.
According to him, the 25-year-old student of Plateau State Polytechnic, Barkin Ladi, was hale and hearty as of the time he was arrested.
The retired police officer added that his nephew was left in an unconscious state for hours before he was taken to POGBA Clinic and Maternity at Jikwoyi, where he was dumped without medical attention.
He told the panel that being a retired police officer, he knew that the law did not allow the torture of suspects by police.
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