Group asks Police to investigate source of Ezu River dead bodies

By Innocent Anaba

A civil society group, International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, Intersociety, based in Anambra State, has called on Police Force headquarters to investigate former commanders of Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS in Anambra State to ascertain their level of involvement in the dumping of bodies of criminal suspects inside Ezu River in Awka North Local Government Area of the state, sometime in 2013.

It will be recalled that many corpses were found floating inside the river and in a reaction, members of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, accused SARS operatives in the state of killing the suspects in their custody extra-judicially and dumping their bodies inside the river.

In a statement in Onitsha, Anambra State, chairman of Intersociety, Mr Emeka Umeagbalasi said that while the probe is on-going, the police high command should at the same time engage in computerization of the Nigeria Police Force and intensification of in-service and out-service trainings and workshops for its officers, especially the personnel of its special or technical departments such as SARS, FCID and SCIDs.

The group specifically called on the Inspector-General of Police, IG, Mr Ibrahim Idris and his Nigeria Police Management Team and specifically the Force Criminal Investigations and Force Operations Departments to critically and expertly study and analyze the four technical sections of the special/expert investigative report released by Intersociety on killings in Nigeria for the purpose of using them to revolutionalize, computerize and digitalize the Force manually, mentally and scientifically.

It also called on the National Assembly and the Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, as well as the state governors and their A-Gs and the state Houses of Assembly to revisit, overhaul and upgrade Nigeria’s federation’s criminal justice and associated human rights code laws (Acts and Laws) in line with international best practices.

including immediate adoption or ratification and domestication of outstanding regional and international rights and humanitarian treaties.

The post Group asks Police to investigate source of Ezu River dead bodies appeared first on Vanguard News.