Tuesday 11 December 2012

Police to Lose Power to Prosecute Suspects


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Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke

The police will soon forfeit their power to prosecute suspects under a new arrangement being worked out by the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF).
The AGF and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN), said at a lecture yesterday in Abuja that in the impending dispensation, his office would assume the power to prosecute any criminal suspect.
Adoke, while delivering a keynote address at a national dialogue on torture, extra-judicial killings and national security, organised by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), also said extra-judicial killings in the country had claimed about 7,195 lives, adding that the situation has contributed to the wave of terrorism in the country today.

IG Orders Arrest of Abductors of Okonjo-Iweala’s Mother


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Prof. Kamene Okonjo

A flurry of activities began Monday for the rescue of Prof. Kamene Okonjo, mother of the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who was kidnapped on Sunday by a 10-man gang at the palace of the Obi of Ogwashi-Uku in Delta State.
The Inspector General of Police (IG), Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, ordered the police to spare no efforts in ensuring that not only is Okonjo rescued hale and hearty, her abductors must be arrested to face justice.