{"id":123391,"date":"2019-06-03T19:23:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T18:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=123391"},"modified":"2019-06-03T19:26:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T18:26:21","slug":"breaking-state-lg-police-approved-by-president-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=123391","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: State, LG Police approved by President Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-png view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/UPDATE-I-Have-Concerns-With-The-Figures-In-This-Budget-Says-Buhari-As-He-Signs-2019-Appropriation-Bill.png\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the creation of state and local government Police across Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>He also approved the dismissal of 37 police officers as recommended by the National Human Rights Commission Presidential Special Panel on SARS Reforms.<\/p>\n<p>The decision is contained in the statement by the Executive Secretary, National Human Rights Commission and Chairman Presidential Panel on SARS Reform, Anthony Ojukwu, during the submission of report of the Presidential Panel on the reform of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), of the Nigeria Police, at the Presidential Villa, on Monday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cAt the end of its public hearing and having listened to complaints as well as defendants and their counsel, the Panel recommended thirty-seven (37) Police of\ufb01cers for dismissal from the force. Twenty four (24) were recommended for prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe panel also directed the Inspector General of Police to unravel the identity of twenty-two (22) of\ufb01cers involved in the violation of the human rights of innocent Citizens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe police was directed to pay compensation of various sums in forty\u2014\ufb01ve (45) complaints and tender public apologies in \ufb01ve (5) complaints and directed to obey court orders in \ufb01ve (5) matters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Police was directed to immediately arrest and prosecute two (2) retired senior Police of\ufb01cers found to have violated the rights of citizens (one for extra-judicial killing and the other for the illegal takeover of Property of a suspect). The Panel also recovered two vehicles illegally auctioned by SARS Of\ufb01cers and returned them to their owners.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the creation of state and local government Police across Nigeria. He also approved the dismissal of 37 police officers as recommended by the National Human Rights Commission Presidential Special Panel on SARS Reforms. The decision is contained in the statement by the Executive Secretary, National Human Rights Commission and Chairman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[8256,61,12191],"class_list":["post-123391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-ig","tag-police","tag-state-police"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}