The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has applied to withdraw the suit filed against the judicial panels of inquiry set up to probe allegations of brutality and human rights abuses against the defunct Special Anti-Robery Squad (SARS)
.In a notice of discontinuance filed by Police Counsel, Mr Festus Ibude, the Force said it wished to withdraw the suit against all the defendants.
In a suit filed by Mr O.M. Atoyebi, the force had argued that the establishment of panels of inquiry by state governors to investigate its activities was illegal and unconstitutional.
The Force had asked the court to restrain the thirty-six state governors listed as defendants from conducting any investigation to probe the affairs of the security agency.
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, in a statement signed by the force public relations officer, DCP Frank Mba, however, expressed his disapproval of the suit and ordered an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the filing of the suit.
IGP Adamu had insisted that the force was committed to fulfilling all its obligations with regard to the disbandment of the defunct SARS.
He added that the officer responsible for the suit had been queried and might be sanctioned “if found guilty of dereliction of duty.”
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