One of the petitioners in the ongoing investigation into the SARS and Nigeria Police brutality and extra-judicial killings in Anambra State, Lady Nnenna John has withdrawn her petition.
The petitioner withdrew the petition during the sitting of the Anambra State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality, Extra-Judicial Killings and Other Related Matters, at ASATU Hall, Government House, Awka.
Correspondent Emmanuel Okonkwo reports that the petitioner who was absent during the proceeding, through her council, Mr C.L. Okafor who refused to speak to the ABS, withdrew the petition she filed on the twenty-eighth October, 2020, against the defunct SARS and Nigeria Police Force, for reasons best known to her.
In a remark, the Chairman of the Panel, Justice Veronica Umeh restated the commitment of the panel towards giving the victims of the defunct SARS and police brutality and extra-judicial killings justice at the end of the assignment.
Justice Umeh emphasized on the need for the petitioners to always come forward whenever they are called upon by the panel and to present to the panel with the truth to enable it deliver on its mandate.
A petitioner who spoke to the ABS, Mr Chukwudi Nwabugwu from Ihiala narrated how his son was unlawful arrested in 2014 by the officials of the defunct SARS and did not return since then, and expressed the hope that the State government will through the investigative panel, give his family deserved justice.
Another petitioner and a mother of six from Awkuzu in Oyi Local Government Area, Mrs Ebele Sunday-Obidigbo narrated how her husband was in 2011 illegally arrested by the SARS operatives and later died on the process, and called on the panel to do everything possible to give her late husband justice.
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