The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), has condemned the killing of police officers and destruction of property by hoodlums across the country.
In a statement issued on Tuesday by Fatimah Agwai Mohammed, NHRC’s Assistant Director, Public Affairs, the commission’s Executive Secretary, Mr. Tony Ojukwu, said “such heinous crime has no place in modern history and therefore should be eschewed to allow peace and orderliness to reign in the country.”
Ojukwu who stated this in Abuja while reacting to the attacks on police personnel and wanton destruction of properties at some police stations in some states of the federation, maintained that two wrongs cannot make a right and that any aggrieved persons who have an opportunity to take their complaints and petitions to the Independent Investigative Panel set up by the NHRC to hear complaints of allegations of human rights violations by SARS should do so with out further delay.
He said the Commission is currently receiving such petitions for onward investigations and subsequent recommendations to the appropriate government agencies for compensations or prosecution of offenders in accordance with the law.
Ojukwu noted that the establishment of inquiries by the state governments across the 36 states is welcome development to complement the efforts of the federal government that already established the Independent Investigative Panel midwifed by the NHRC.
Ojukwu emphasized that attacks on police Personel, arson and destruction of police facilities or those of other agencies are clearly out of place and should be condemned by all well- meaning Nigerians.