#EndSARS: Panel dismisses petition against federal lawmaker

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EndSARS: Panel dismisses petition against federal lawmaker

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The panel set up to investigate police brutality in Akwa Ibom State has dismissed a petition filed against a member of the federal House of Representatives, Onofiok Luke.The petitioner, Emmanuel Udo, said security officials attached to Mr Luke had assaulted him in 2017 when he was the speaker of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly.

The panel, chaired by Ifiok Ukana, a retired judge, dismissed Mr Udo’s petition, Tuesday, on grounds that his case against Mr Luke was pending at the Court of Appeal, Calabar.Besides the pendency of the case in the court, Mr Luke’s lawyer, Ekemini Udim, told the panel that it lacked the jurisdiction to look into a case that was already decided by a court.

The lawyer also told the court that the panel was set up to investigate police officers, “and not Nigerian citizens like Mr Luke.” “Honourable Onofiok Luke is a citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria who has never worked in the Nigeria Police Force and never intended to do so. “The terms of reference of this Panel do not cover the investigation of petitions made against private citizens and the DSS personnel mentioned in the petition is equally not a member of the Nigeria Police Force,” Mr Udim told the panel.

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