Queries legal officer
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has denied ordering or giving permission to a suit filed by the police challenging the constitutionality of the judicial panels set up by various state governments to investigate police brutality.
The IFP made this known in a statement by its spokesperson, Frank Mba, yesterday evening. He, therefore, queried the legal officer of the Police over the filing of the suit, an official said.
It was earlier reported that the Police had filed a suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja praying for an order stopping the various states judicial panels of enquiry probing allegations of rights abuses and other acts of brutality of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad, (SARS) and other Police tactical units.
According to the report, the plaintiff in the suit marked, FHC/ABJ/CS/1492/2020, urged the court to restrain the Attorneys-General of the 36 states of the federation and their various panels of enquiry from going ahead with the probe focusing on police impunity.
Mba in his statement said Adamu has since launched an investigation into the origin of the suit.
