The Human Rights Writers Association, HURIWA, has condemned the killing of an officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), late Ogar Jombo in Abuja.
DAILY POST reports that Ogar Jombo, an Assistant Superintendent of the NSCDC, was allegedly killed on Wednesday in the presence of his wife and children when he was stopped by policemen for alleged violation of traffic regulation.
The police command, in response, said it has taken into custody two of its officers, who allegedly killed the officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Nyanya, Abuja.
However, the FPRO, Frank Mba, in a statement, said that the NSCDC officer slumped at the police station which led to his death.
But reacting, HURIWA called for the prosecution of the police operatives found to have allegedly committed the crime.
The rights group said ”the poor human rights scorecard of Nigeria under the current dispensation as recorded by the United States of America goes to show that the state of professional indiscipline of the security forces and especially the operatives and officers of the Nigerian police force has reached an unprecedented global dimension requiring surgical overhaul of the modus operandi of the policing institution in the country.
”HURIWA, therefore, ask the Federal government to immediately arrest and prosecute the policemen who gruesomely murdered Mr. Ogah Jumbo of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps just as the Rights group calls for forensic audits of all detention facilities to identify security forces involved in extra judicial killings.
”That time is of the essence and that time is running out for Nigeria to embark on holistic reformation and overhaul of the Nigeria Police force which stinks of bribery; corruption and lawlessness. ”
The group added that the ”climate of impunity and lawlessness that pervade the nation’s security forces and especially the police force are capable of destroying constitutional democracy and imperil the respect to the fundamental rights of Nigerians as provided for by the legal frameworks”
