Police withdraws suit filed against Judicial Panels in Court

The Nigerian Police have filed a fresh application to discontinue the case it earlier filed against the constituted Judicial Panels of enquiry in states across the country.

The application to stop the case from further proceeding was filed by Festus Ogude at the Federal High Court on Friday.

Nigerian cable news online reported how the Police on Thursday filled a suit at the Federal High Court, seeking to disband the panel’s nationwide.

The suit with file number FHC/ABJ/CS/1492/2020, sought to quash the panels across all states.

The panels were constituted nationwide to look into allegations of human rights abuses by the defunct police squad, SARS.

The constitution of the panels was one of the major concessions granted by the government to #EndSARS protesters in October.

Many state governments have since set up the panels and hearing has since begun.

However, the Police Inspector-General, Mohammed Adamu in a reaction to the case through the force PRO Frank Mba, dissociated himself from the case and ordered an investigation of the Police legal department over the development.