#EndSARS: Bauchi constitutes 17-member judicial panel of inquiry

Following the widespread protests by youths and other human rights groups across the country against the recurring highhandedness and brutality of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) unit of the Nigeria Police Force, Bauchi State Government has constituted a judicial panel of inquiry.

The development according to a press release by the Senior Special Assistant on Media to the Governor, Muktar Gidado is in line with the resolve of the government to reform the Nigeria Police Force in order to investigate human right abuses in Bauchi State.

The release further contained that Governor Bala Mohammed approved the constitution of the committee with Justice Habibu Idris Shall, a retired High Court judge as its chairman.

Other members of the committee are CP. Hamisu Makama (Rtd); Chairman, Nigerian Bar Association, Bauchi State Chapter, Barr. Jibrin S. Jibrin; Civil Society Groups, Bauchi State; Representative of Human Right Commission Bauchi State Office (NHRC) and Representative of FIDA, Bauchi State Office.

The members also include chairman, Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Bauchi State council; Representative of Jama’atul Nasirul Islam (JNI), Bauchi State Chapter; representative of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Bauchi State as well as representative of National Council of Women Society, Bauchi State (NCWS).

Also appointed as members of the committee are representative of National Youth Council of Nigeria Bauchi State; Representative of NACCIMA, Bauchi State; representative of Miyetti Allah Kautel Hore, Bauchi State; representative of Miyetti Allah (MACBAN), Bauchi State; representative of NURTW, Bauchi State; Comrade Mohammed Nasiru Umar ATBU representing NUBASS while the representative of the Attorney-General/Commissioner of Justice is to serve as the Secretary.

The governor hoped that members of the committee will bring their wealth of knowledge and experience into the discharge of the committee’s assignment.

The Panel will be inaugurated on Wednesday, October 28, 2020, by  Governor Mohammed, at the Banquet Hall of the Government House, Bauchi, by 10:00 am.

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