By Emma Okereh
Chairman of the Independent Investigative Panel on SARS, Justice Suleiman Galadima rtd, on Thursday asked ACP Magawate Mode to assist the panel with vital information that will enhance its ability to serve justice appropriately.
Specifically, Justice Galadima rtd requested that the ACP furnish the panel with a sequential list of DPO’s who had served in Maitama, Abuja from 2013 – 2020.
In a case of alleged intimidation, disobedience of court order and confiscation of properties, counsel to the petitioner had failed to provide the name of the DPO linked to the matter.
The petitioner had cited a certain DPO ( no name provided) as being at the helm of affairs in Maitama in 2013, when he ran into trouble with the Police.
Hon. Ngozi Ihuoma ( the petitioner) alleged that the police harassed him, and in connivance with Union Bank Nigeria PLC confiscated his car.
Ihuoma also told the 11- man fact finding panel that the matter which was decided in his favour in a court of law has not yielded much, as the police have failed to honour the awards as directed.
Appearing before the panel on Thursday was a former DPO of Maitama, ACP Mattawale.
Mattawale, the panel observed, was not the DPO at Maitama within the period under review as he had served from 2017 to 2020.
To enable it make progress, Chairman of panel, appealed to ACP Magawate to assist with the list of DPO’s from 2013 to date.
The case was adjourned to 15th December 2021 for defence.
