The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has applied to withdraw its lawsuit filed to stop judicial panels probing allegations of brutality by its officials particularly operatives of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS.
InsideOjodu repoeted on Thursday that the NPF had filed a suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja praying for an order to stop the various states’ judicial panels of enquiry probing allegations of rights abuses and other acts of the brutality of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad and other police tactical units.
The suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1492/2020, urged the court to restrain the Attorneys-General of the 36 states of the federation and their various panels of enquiry from going ahead with the probe focussing on police impunity.
But, the NPF on Friday filed a notice of discontinuance by a lawyer to the NPF, Festus Ibude.
“Take notice that the plaintiff herein intends to and doth hereby wholly withdraws its suit against all the defendants,” the notice reads.
There have been several criticism following this suit for attempting to stop the investigations.
This led to the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, directing immediate investigation into the lawsuit.