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The Nigeria Police Force has filed an application for withdrawal of its suit against the judicial panels continued probe of allegations of brutality and human rights abuses against the force.
MERIDIAN SPY reported Thursday the Force filed a suit at a Federal High Court in Abuja seeking an order to stop the judicial panels of inquiry set up by state governors to probe allegations of police brutality and human rights abuses against the force.
In a suit marked FHC/ ABJ/CS/1492/2020 and filed by O.M Atoyebi, NPF’s lawyer, the police argued that the establishment of panels of inquiry by the state governors to investigate the activities of the force violates “section 241(1)(2)(a) and item 45, part 1, first schedule to the constitution and section 21 of the tribunals of inquiry act”.
Atoyebi asked the court to restrain the defendants from conducting any investigation or setting up panels to probe the affairs of the security agency.
But, hours later, Mohammed Adamu, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), while expressing his disapproval, directed an immediate investigation into the suit challenging the legality of the States’ Judicial Panel.
However, in a notice of discontinuance filed by Festus Ibude, police counsel, on Friday, the security agency said it wishes to withdraw the suit against all the defendants.
“Take notice that the plaintiff herein intends to and doth hereby wholly withdraws its suit against all the defendant,” it reads.
