Amnesty wants Jonathan to probe police killings – The Guardian
February 15, 2010 by Bunmi Awolusi · View Comments
Amnesty International has called on Acting President Goodluck Jonathan to fulfil the commitments made in his acceptance speech by setting up an independent commission of inquiry into all suspected cases of unlawful killings by the Nigeria Police in recent years.
The call was prompted by the broadcast of a video footage on Al Jazeera last week that allegedly showed police shooting and killing unarmed people in Maiduguri, Borno State, in July last year.
A statement by Amnesty International’s Africa Director, Erwin van der Borght, decried the action of the police, stressing that all alleged killings and shootings should be investigated and perpetrators brought to book in the interest of justice.
