Youths withdraw from Anambra EndSARS panel, Allege Govt Neglect

Youth Representatives of the Anambra State panel on Police Brutality have on Sunday announced their official resignation from the judicial panel of Inquiry following alleged government neglect.

The youths, Chijioke Ifediora, Henry Chibuike Ugwu, Osonwa Chukwuka, Comr. Ebelechukwu Ngini, and Comr. Kas Chibuike Obiwuzie, were government appointed representatives of the youths from the judiciary into the Anambra state judicial panel of inquiry on the allegations of extra judicial killings by the defunct SARS, police Brutality and other public complaints against the Nigerian Police.

In a press briefing in Awka, the youths representatives led by Chijioke Ifediora, said that their resolve was made after the state government failed to play its role in seeing the success of the panel.

Addressing journalists, they said that the panel was not only abandoned by the state government but characterized by inefficiency and poor organization because the state government failed to adequately provide the logistics for things involved in the proceedings of the panel.

It was learnt that the panel had over three hundred and ten petition filed against the police in Anambra state which was to be addressed within a stipulated short period of time, a testament they said, showed the resolve of the residents to vent out their grievances against the violators of their human rights.

They accused the government of having no regards for the victims of the police brutality and many human rights violation in the state insisting that the state government totally ignored the panel which according to them were simply set up to play to the gallery.

They claimed that some of the abused victims and other interested stakeholders have been on their neck in their bid to know why the panel has failed to sit despite more than 250 petitions which have not been attended to.

They also claimed that the enquiries have failed to yield concrete answers as the government despite being aware of the interest of the public has continue to show no signs of interest in the activities of the panel.

They restated that they will not be used as pawns in the “game of the government” and categorically said that they have dissociated themselves from the the charade put up to give lip service to the plight of residents of the state.