Police Brutality: You possibly can’t strive Peter Obi – SAN tells Panel
A former governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi, on Thursday, requested the state Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality, Extrajudicial Killings and Different Associated Issues sitting in Awka to dismiss the petition towards him.
He mentioned the panel lacked the jurisdiction to entertain the case.
Represented by his counsel, Alex Ejesieme, SAN, Obi mentioned it was an abuse of courtroom course of and sub judice for the panel to imagine jurisdiction on a matter that was pending earlier than the Court docket of Enchantment.
Ejesieme prayed the panel to dismiss the petition towards his consumer for lack of advantage.
The petition towards Obi and the disbanded Particular Anti-Theft Squad was introduced earlier than the Justice Veronica Umeh-led panel by Chief Bonaventure Mokwe over the demolition of his Higher Class Lodge in Onitsha in 2013 in addition to his detention for 81 days on the Awkuzu SARS cell.
Earlier than the resuming listening to on Thursday, the panel had requested Mokwe to file an addendum to his petition on November 26 to allow it to ask individuals talked about within the processes.
Nonetheless, Mokwe’s counsel, Prof. Umeh Nweke, described Obi’s utility as one which “has no leg to face.”
He known as on the panel to not heed to Obi’s utility, including that it was not potential for the petitioner to recount his ordeal with out mentioning the previous governor.
The panel adjourned the case to December 10, 2020.
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