By Patrick Obia and Rachel Idim After adjourning from November 13 to 19, 2020 to allow the Federal Government (Police) respond to 54 petitions at once, the sitting of the Panel of Inquiry into Police Brutality and Restitution in Cross River State has yet again been adjourned. The sitting which also started 12 minutes late
By Patrick Obia and Rachel Idim Cross River State Judicial Panel on Police Brutality and Restitution has entertained testimony from a victim, adjourns to Thursday, 19 November, 2020. The panel which is sitting in the Ministry of Justice, State Secretariat Calabar, commenced sitting 12 minutes behind schedule (10:12am) with six Policemen on guard; four inside and
By Patrick Obia and Rachel Idim The Cross River State Judicial Panel on Police brutality and restitution says it will begin hearing cases from Friday after confirmation on who the defendant will be and who will take responsibility on the issue of compensation. The seven man panel lef by a former Chief Judge of the
By Archibong Jeremiah The Cross River State seven-man Panel of Inquiry into Police Brutality and Restitution has extended deadline for submission of petition by victims. The panel in a public notice signed by its Secretary, Tanko Ashang who is the State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice extended the date for submission of written memoranda from Friday,
The public discourse of the past few weeks has changed from the inadequacies of justice and governance to the need for law and order. The ruling petty bourgeois were thrown into confusion and disarray as they tried to respond to the popularity and humanity of the #endsarsprotesters. They were taken aback by their youthfulness, zeal,
By Kelvin Ololo The Judicial Panel of Inquiry on #PoliceBrutality has yet to begin sitting in Cross River State, though it has received only three petitions. According to the Chairman, who is a former Chief Judge of the State, Justice Michael Edem (retd), “the inaugural sitting is on the 9th of November.” Adah Wodu of
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Vexed by the 48-hour total break down of law and order leading to vandalisation and arson of Government and private properties in Calabar, Cross River, the Obong of Calabar, Edidem Ekpo Okon Abasi Otu (V) has called for establishment of an interim Government in the State. The Obong, who made this declaration,
Apologies to Ola Rotimi, the pun in the title is well intended. I dare say that I understand the temptation to point accusing fingers at those in positions of leadership; it is much more convenient to slap the blame emblem on them and display them at the market square. Yet, when we develop selective amnesia