The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has urged the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, to prosecute 35 officers of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of Nigeria Police Force over alleged human rights violations.
The Executive Secretary of the commission, Mr. Tony Ojukwu, made the charge yesterday while presenting a list of the said offenders to the AGF in Abuja.
Ojukwu said that the list was an extract of the full report of the Special Presidential Panel on SARS earlier submitted to President Muhammadu Buhari in June last year.
According to Ojukwu, the list contained the names of all those indicted and should be prosecuted for various offences by the AGF.
He added that the report of the panel also contained the findings on the complaints gathered from Nigerians during its sittings in the six geopolitical zones of the country.
In response, Malami assured that his office would take all necessary steps to ensure that justice is done to the list presented to him for prosecution.
“We have a mandate to establish a constitutional order where the welfare and peaceful co-existence of citizens are prioritised against personal or group interest”, he said.
