#EndSARS: Umahi Promises To Release Illegal Detained Persons In Ebonyi Police Cell
By Joyce Aroh
The Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi has finally addressed the EndSARS protesters’ demands by ordering a thorough investigation into the activities of the Police, while also promising to release all illegally detained persons in police cells across the state
The protesters who blocked the roads in front of the Government House Abakaliki on Monday, between 10 am and 4 pm, carried placards with various inscriptions, and chanting various solidarity songs
However, the protesters demand that the government end SARS and police brutality and setting up of a commission of enquiry to investigate the activities of SARS.
The protesters also demanded payment of compensation to families of victims of police brutality and the release of all those illegally detained in SARS cells.
They also urged the governor to look into the activities of Eke Aba police station and local government task force collectors.
While responding, Governor Umahi promised that Ebonyi State Government would compensate families of victims of police brutality, adding that the state government would collaborate with the National Human Rights Commission to end police brutality.
Umahi further orders all tertiary institutions in the state to resume effective teaching and learning on Wednesday, October 21, threatening that the state government would sack all lecturers and workers who disobeyed the directive.
The Governor promised to synergise with the Police and Army to dismantle all roadblocks in the state and advised people to resist extortion by calling him through the personal phone number he announced.
“We shall establish an eight-man judicial panel of inquiry, victims’ support fund, special security and human rights committee and human rights complaints office,” Umahi stated.
