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The pro-Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s Save Rivers Movement (SRM) has dragged Commissioner of Police Mbu Joseph Mbu to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), over the shooting of Senator Magnus Abe (Rivers Southeast), demanding N1 billion damages and an apology.
The SRM’s petition was addressed to the Executive Secretary of the NHRC by the group’s lawyer, Ken Atsuwete, a human rights activist.
The petition is titled: “Arbitrary use of police powers, weapons and coercive force on members of the Save Rivers Movement, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, Chief Tony Okocha and innocent Nigerians, contrary to Chapter 4 of the 1999 Constitution, the Police Act and the decision of the Court of Appeal in IGP –v- ANPP (2007) AHRL, 179.”
Besides the police’s shooting of the ex-Secretary to the Rivers State Government (Abe) at the Rivers State College of Arts and Science, the pro-Amaechi group also frowned on the disruption of its rally and the injury sustained by the Chief of Staff, Government House, Port Harcourt, Okocha.
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