The Commission of Inquiry set up to investigate activities of #EndSARS
and other police brutality in Niger state has awarded N6 million
compensation to a woman whose husband was killed in extra – judicial
circumstance.
The chairman of the commission, Justice Ishaku Usman, stated this
Wednesday when he submitted the report/ recommendation of the
commission to Governor Abubakar Sani Bello.
“We awarded compensation to a woman with two children whose husband
was killed by the police. A witness told the commission that the man
was killed in his presence with a gunshot by the police. According to
the witness the man was in the market to sell when the police arrived
and shot him dead,” he SAID.
He said the widow told the commission that since the incident about
two years ago, it has been very difficult for the family to survive.
Justice Usman said that the commission admitted 50 exhibits during its
sitting including three teeth of a young lady who suffered brutality
during police invasion of a community.
