Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has condemned “violent attacks on peaceful protesters demanding the release of Omoyele Sowore and Olawale Bakare as ordered by the court.” In a statement today by SERAP deputy director Kolawole Oluwadare, the organization said: “We have seen a video footage apparently showing the use of lethal and excessive force […]
Salihu Enesi who has been in the custody of the State Security Service (SSS) since 2015 without arraignment has sued the agency demanding for N5 billion aggravated damages for unlawful detention and incapacitation. Enesi, who filed the suit marked No. FHC/ABJ/05/974/18 through his counsel, Bala Dakum of Dakum & Co at the Federal High Court, […]
The Senate has set up a committee to investigate the recent face-off between armed operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and the State Security Service, SSS. The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, said the eight-member committee will be chaired by Francis Alimikhena. Other members of the committee are Shaaba Lafiagi, Chkwuka Utazi, Abudulaziz […]
Two days after the face-off between the operatives of the EFCC, SSS and the NIA, a group, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on President Buhari to “urgently instruct the leadership of the SSS and NIA to allow anti-corruption agencies carry out their mandate without any interference whatsoever.” The group also condemned […]
The simmering inter-agency war between the anti-graft agency, Economic Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, on the one hand and the State Security Service, SSS, and the National Intelligence Agency, NIA, burst into the open early Tuesday when a combined team of EFCC officials and police officers attempted to arrest the former heads of the two agencies, […]
Dr. Alex Izinyon (SAN), the lead prosecution counsel, on Monday, told a Federal High Court, in Abuja, that the team was ready to tender additional exhibits as proof that Charles Okah and Obi Nwabueze committed the October1, 2010 Independence Day anniversary bombing, in Abuja. The team had, last week, tendered 14 exhibits, including an old […]