ATROCITIES: Minister receives list of 35 defunct SARS’ operatives to be prosecuted, dismissed
*FG’s been mindful of welfare, security and well-being of all citizens before agitations – Malami
The Federal Government of Nigeria has received a report containing 35 operatives of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, who have been recommended for prosecution and outright dismissal from the Nigeria Police Force.
The report of the indicted SARS operatives, which were drawn from 12 states including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), was presented to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Mallam Abubakar Malami (SAN), by the Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission, Mr. Tony Ojukwu, in Abuja.
This came as officials in charge of Nigeria’s institutions are accused to be responsible for many of the hardship that citizens face as they decided all along to be irresponsive to duty. A respondent anonymously said, “If not irresponsibility, indiscipline negligence of duty, why should it have taken #ENDSARS protests for those in charge of public service, who are supposed to act on reports of erring public servant or security personnel, to send compiled names to the minister?”
NHRC’S Ojukwu said the affected SARS officers were found culpable of offences that ranged from alleged extra-judicial killings, unlawful arrest and detention, threat and intimidation, unfounded allegations, seizure of properties, as well as illegal blockage of bank accounts of citizens.
In his response, Malami, who formally received the report, said the government would implement the report in such a way that justice would be served to all the parties concerned.
He said that the Police Act 2020 had provided answers to the various problems affecting the Police force, including their operations and welfare as captured in the Police Trust Fund.
The minister reinstated that the Federal Government had been mindful of the welfare, security and well-being of all citizens before the current agitations to reform the Police force.
