A civil rights organization in Bauchi State, Prison Inmates Development Initiative (PIDI-Nigeria), has petitioned the state police command over alleged human rights violation by the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), led by Superintendent of Police Baba Yola while enforcing the partial lockdown in the state. The executive director of the group, Mr. Iliya Sabka, in the
A civil rights organization in Bauchi State, Prison Inmates Development Initiative , has petitioned the state police command over alleged human rights violation by the Rapid Response Squad , led by Superintendent of Police Baba Yola while enforcing the partial lockdown in the state.
He alleged that the traders were arrested at the market square while trying to lock their shops at 8 pm when the curfew commenced. “After making the arrest, they conveyed the victims in about 5 Police Hilux trucks and took them to Yelwa Divisional Police Office. Thereafter, they compiled the names of all arrested persons and detained them in a police cell. The victims agitated that the police should allow them to stay at the premises of the police station to maintain social distance but the policemen disagreed with their plea.
“However, we were informed that there were already about 15 persons in the cell apart from the 40 persons and that one of the detainees was suspected to have been infected with COVID-19 virus because he was coughing and complaining of headache throughout the night in the cell,” the group stated in the petition.
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