Enugu SARS Cells Now Empty – Enugu CP
The Enugu state commissioner of police, Mr. Ahmad Abdurrahman, has confirmed that the cell of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, in the state was empty.
According to the police chief, all the pending cases being handled prior to their disbandment had been handed over to the State Criminal Investigation Department.
He spoke when Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu state visited the defunct SARS office in Enugu to confirm compliance with the closure directive.
Gov. Ugwuanyi, who was accompanied by the state attorney general and commissioner for justice, Mr. Miletus Eze and his information counterpart, Nnanyelugo Chidi Aroh, was received by Abdurrahman, who took him round the facilities, including the empty cells.
The commissioner of police confirmed to the governor, who he described as “the most friendly and security-disposed governor” that the SARS unit had been closed accordingly.
He said that, prior to the order disbanding the SARS operatives, there were 11 suspects in their detention facility located within the Enugu state capital.
“Today, we don’t have SARS in Enugu; the chief detective of the state, a deputy commissioner of police has taken over the cases.
“As of the day that the unit was disbanded, they had 11 suspects, out of whom one person was based on court order, while 10 are being investigated.
“We returned the one that was on court order to court and he has been taken to Correctional Centre. Of the remaining 10, five have been taken to court this morning and the investigation on remaining five is still pending. It is being investigated by men of the State Criminal Investigation Department.
“Having said this, I want to reiterate that there is now an empty cell here; the unit is no more,” he disclosed.
In his remark, the state attorney general, Mr. Eze, disclosed that the Judicial Panel of Inquiry recently constituted by Gov. Ugwuanyi to investigate complaints of police brutality or related extrajudicial killings, as demanded by the protesters, would be inaugurated on Wednesday.
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