The House of Representatives has moved to enact a framework which would hold individual members of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) responsible and accountable for their conduct in the course of performance of their lawful duties, including criminal and civil liabilities.
The framework will ensure that the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) bears the civil liability for failures in their conduct and operational procedures that leads to violations of citizens’ rights
The notion was moved by Hon Alhassan Ado Doguwa during a plenary on the need to put a stop to the human rights abuses by members of the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigerian Police.
Hon Alhassan while presenting the motion noted with great concerns the persistent outcry by Nigerians over the brutality and human rights violation by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigerian Police Force.
He noted that the Incessant and alarming rate of unauthorized raids, extortion, stealing, frame-ups, indiscriminate searches of mobile phones, and other smart devices and arbitrary confiscation and fraudulent conversion of private property of citizens to personal use is a sharp departure from their core mandate of responding to cases of armed robbery, kidnapping, and other violent crimes.
The lawmakers also ordered the Inspector General of Police, IGP, to take actions in ending the brutality and human rights violations by SARS and report the said actions to the House within three weeks.
The IGP was also ordered to produce a comprehensive record of disciplinary and(or) Judicial action taken against the officers accused of abuse of power in the past five years and produce an immediate plan for identifying and compensating victims.
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