#EndSARS: Panel to invite Anambra Ex-gov, Peter Obi

 

The Anambra State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality, Extra-Judicial Killings and other Related Matters has said that it would invite Ex-governor, Peter Obi or anyone indicted by petitioners to appear before the panel and also give testimonies.

 

The chairman of the panel, Justice Veronica Umeh was reacting to a petitioner, Chief Bonaventure Mokwe who had linked the former governor, Mr Peter Obi to the operations SARS in the state.

 

Chief Bonaventure Mokwe, owner of Upper-Class Hotel in Onitsha which was demolished in 2003 by the Anambra State government, the owner arrested and tortured by men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, over alleged involvement in kidnapping activitiesm had filled a five-page petition to the panel and also demanding for a public apology from the state government for being branded a kidnaper and his hotel demolished, while he was kept in SARS custody for 81 days without any charge against him.

 

Details soon…